Bark by Ferris Cook

Bark by Ferris Cook

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Anyone who has known a canine companion should find a portrait of his or her friend somewhere in this book. The volume is an anthology of verse which touches on love, loss, friendship, ageing, death and the beyond, with poems accompanied by charcoal drawings.

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Bark by Ferris Cook

Anyone who has known a canine companion should find a portrait of his or her friend somewhere in this book. The volume is an anthology of verse which touches on love, loss, friendship, ageing, death and the beyond - the entire scope of the human condition. It features poetry by Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Louise Gluck, Langston Hughes, Denise Levertov, Philip Levine, James Merrill, W.S. Merwin, Pablo Neruda, Mary Oliver, Dorothy Parker, Adrienne Rich, Rainer Maria Rilke, Charles Simic, Miguel de Unamumo, John Updike, Richard Wilbur, William Carlos Williams, William Wordsworth and others. The 30 poems are presented with charcoal illustrations.
Ferris Cook is an artist and writer/editor/illustrator of ten previous books. She lives in New York.
SKU Unavailable
ISBN 13 9780821226643
ISBN 10 0821226649
Title Bark
Author Ferris Cook
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Little, Brown & Company
Year published 2000-09-01
Number of pages 80
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.