A review by nichughes
Dog Songs by Mary Oliver

5.0

“How beautiful is her unshakable sleep.” A simultaneously poignant and irreverent collection of poems, it helped me grieve the loss of my 15yo pup and remember the joy dogs bring. “It is almost a failure of will, a failure of love, to let them grow old—or so it feels. We would do anything to keep them with us, and to keep them young. The one gift we cannot give.” The penultimate piece has so many interesting insights about the nature of dogs and how they relate to us and the world.