“Dog Songs,” the 30th and newest of Mary Oliver’s poetry collections, contains 35 poems, one essay about dogs, and 11 pen-and-ink drawings of dogs. To anyone who has ever loved a dog, these ...

Since 2000, books exploring dog minds have proliferated at an astonishing rate. Currently more than 70,000 dog books are listed on Amazon, including dozens of novels, many of them best-selling ...

“The Book of Pet Love and Loss,” by Sara Bader, ... Mary Oliver is there, and Sara mentions “Dog Songs” but not the line about summers that so moved me.

The kids' book, which features illustrations by MacKenzie Haley, follows Billy the Kid, a dog who loves barking to the beat of country music and wants to make it big as a country music star in ...