Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Great Regulars: Many poems feature dogs

doing things more common to people--caring, giving empathy--and people doing dog things--sleeping in parks, visiting dog runs, sticking their nose into the weather.

Cutesy as some of these inversions can seem at first, it's hard to blame [Philip] Schultz for making them: "We all like a little self-rhapsody," he writes, speaking for us and the four-legged.

from John Freeman: The News & Observer: Poems mark hard paths

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