Cat Poems

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You Know How a Cat

will bring a mouse it has
caught and lay it at your

feet so each morning I
bring you a poem that

I've written when I woke
up in the night as my tribute

to your beauty &
a promise of my love.

-James Laughlin

Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship, affection, mystery, and innumerable metaphors.
Cats raise a mirror up to their beholders; cats endlessly captivate and hypnotise, frustrate and delight. To poets, in particular, these enigmatic creatures are the most delightful and beguiling of muses, as they purr, prowl, hunt, play, meow, and nap, often oblivious to their so-called masters. Cat Poems offers a litter of odes to our beloved felines by some of the greatest poets of all time.

Sinopsis del producto

You Know How a Cat

will bring a mouse it has
caught and lay it at your

feet so each morning I
bring you a poem that

I've written when I woke
up in the night as my tribute

to your beauty &
a promise of my love.

-James Laughlin

Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship, affection, mystery, and innumerable metaphors.
Cats raise a mirror up to their beholders; cats endlessly captivate and hypnotise, frustrate and delight. To poets, in particular, these enigmatic creatures are the most delightful and beguiling of muses, as they purr, prowl, hunt, play, meow, and nap, often oblivious to their so-called masters. Cat Poems offers a litter of odes to our beloved felines by some of the greatest poets of all time.

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Bishop, Elizabeth; Smith, Stevie; Pound, Ezra; Baudelaire, Charles; Williams, William Carlos; Rilke, Rainer Maria; Lowell, Amy; Yeats, W.B.; Various

Cats; kittens; meow; kitties; fur; purr; pet; tortoiseshell; Emily Dickinson; Baudelaire; William Carlos Williams; Ezra Pound; poems; poetry; anthology; Denise Levertov; Amy Lowell; Stevie Smith; Ryszard Krynicki; Gavin Ewart; Kenneth Rexroth; James Laughlin; James Tate; Robert Duncan; Fernando Pessoa; Elizabeth Bishop; Eliot Weinberger; Edward Lear; Louis Zukofsky; Patrizia Cavalli; Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Rainer Maria Rilke; Muriel Spark; Eugenio Montale; Christopher Smart; Kawai Chigetsu-ni; Jean Joubert; Basil Bunting; Jung tzu; Edwin Brock; Kim Hyesoon; W.B. Yeats; Hans Faverey; Robert Southey; Kazuko Shiraishi; William Cowper; Jose Garcia Villa; Nicanor Parra; Thomas Gray; Guillaume Apollinaire; guest cat; gift; present; If cats disappeared; The Travelling Cat; The Guest Cat