Yowl : Selected Poems about Cats,9780821227176

Yowl : Selected Poems about Cats

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ISBN13: 9780821227176
ISBN10: 0821227173
Format: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 2001-09-14
Publisher(s): Little Brown & Co
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Summary

Anyone who has or has known a cat will find a familiar portrait somewhere in this easy-to-love book. "Yowl" is an uplifting anthology of verse that touches on love, friendship, aging, and the unique relationship that forms between cat and owner. "Yowl" features poetry by Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ogden Nash, John Keats, Denise Levertov, May Sarton, Pablo Neruda, William Jay Smith, Jorge Luis Borges, May Swenson, William Carlos Williams, and many more.

Table of Contents

To a Cat
3(2)
Jorge Luis Borges
Cat
5(1)
Joan Aiken
The Cat to His Dinner
6(2)
Nancy Willard
Ode to the Cat
8(6)
Pablo Neruda
# 55
14(2)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A Cat's Conscience
16(2)
Anonymous
Sonnet to a Cat
18(2)
John Keats
The Kitten
20(3)
Ogden Nash
The Cat as Cat
23(1)
Denise Levertov
The Cats
24(2)
Weldon Kees
Little Cats
26(1)
Langston Hughes
Catalog
27(3)
Rosalie Moore
For a Deaf Angora Cat
30(2)
William Jay Smith
To Winky
32(3)
Amy Lowell
Poem
35(1)
William Carlos Williams
Luxury
36(2)
May Sarton
Cats
38(2)
Charles Baudelaire
The Tom-Cat
40(3)
Don Marquis
What the Whiskers Measure
43(1)
Maurya Simon
You Know How a Cat
44(2)
James Laughlin
On the Death of a Cat
46(3)
Christina Rossetti
She sights a Bird --- she chuckles ---
49(1)
Emily Dickinson
Cat & the Weather
50(3)
May Swenson
Black Cat
53(1)
Rainer Maria Rilke
Catnip and Dogwood
54(3)
Howard Moss
Curiosity
57(2)
Alastair Reid
The Kilkenny Cats
59(2)
Anonymous
Credits 61(2)
Acknowledgments 63

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