Cat Poems

Synopsis

Cats have fascinated writers for centuries: mysterious companions who can be affectionate one moment and entirely indifferent the next. Cat Poems gathers an eclectic collection of poetry devoted to their peculiar presence, capturing cats at play, asleep, on the hunt, and simply observing the humans who imagine themselves to be their owners.

Edited by Tynan Kogane, this compact New Directions collection brings together poems by writers including Charles Baudelaire, Jorge Luis Borges, Rainer Maria Rilke, Muriel Spark, Denise Levertov, William Carlos Williams, Stevie Smith, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Ezra Pound. Playful, strange, affectionate, and occasionally philosophical, Cat Poems is both a celebration of the enduring literary fascination with cats and a charming little anthology for anyone similarly captivated by them.

About the Editor

Tynan Kogane is an editor at New Directions Publishing and the editor of several of the press's compact literary anthologies, including French Love Poems. In Cat Poems, Kogane draws together writers from different periods, languages, and literary traditions to create a wide-ranging portrait of the cat as companion, mystery, muse, and object of fascination.

Publisher

New Directions Publishing

Publication Date

February 27, 2018

Format

Paperback

Pages

112

Subjects

Poetry · Poetry Anthologies · Cats · Animals in Literature

ISBN

9780811227506