Introduction (p.11) -- Belles lettres. Mommy / Jill Ciment (p.18) -- Love song of Audrey / Jim Shepard (p.20) -- Sniff / Lily Tuck (p.22) -- Complacencies of the fenced yard / William Tester (p.24) -- Rain / Amy Hempel (p.25) -- Ballad of Winky / Merrill Markoe (p.26) -- Chow. Dog kibble : a villanelle / Charles Baxter (p.28) -- Birch / Karen Shepard (p.30) -- Max who caught a car / Ron Carlson (p.32) -- Do not let Skeezix go in there : Winslow's villanelle Ron Hansen (p.34) -- Harold's bowl and food / Denis Johnson (p.35) -- Untitled / John Irving (p.36).
Cont.): The good life. Nietzsche possessed / Brooks Haxton (p.38) -- Dog sonnet / Sidney Wade (p.39) -- Katie's words / Laurence Raab (p.40) -- Down / George Minot (p.42) -- A country dog in the city / Roy Blount, Jr. (p.44) -- A war poem / Jennifer Allen (p.45) -- Retired greyhound, I / Natalie Kusz (p.49) -- Alice / Noy Holland (p.50) -- Full neurological work-up / Padgett Powell (p.52) -- Sally / Cynthia Heimel (p.54) -- Lewis describes his day / Merrill Markoe (p.56) -- Y'all are bird dogs, aren't you? / Mark Richard (p.58) -- Canine nervosa. Lola's lament / Arthur Miller (p.60) -- Cosmo dog / Teres Svoboda (p.62) -- Hugs / Pearson Marx (p.64) -- Sam's ghazals / Elise Paschen (p.66) -- Lab lines / Robert Benson (p.68) -- Daisy, Five, speaks to Sophia, Two / Ralph Lombreglia (p.71 -- Dogged / Abigail Thomas (p.74).
Cont.): Stalker / Jeanne Schinto (p.76) -- Glom : Labrador, 110 pounds / Karen Shepard (p.78) -- In the heat of the night / Lee Smith (p.80) -- Missing : a dog's doggerel / Mary Morris (p.82) -- Buddy / Andrew Hudgins (p.84) -- Domi Solus / Danny Anderson (p.86) -- Substance abuse. Drunk dog / Erin McGraw (p.88) -- I love my master I love my master / Lynda Barry (p.90) -- Rosie / Andrew Hudgins (p.95) -- A toast to the cook / Bernard Cooper (p.97) -- Rescue. Retired Greyhound, II / Natalie Kursz (p.100) -- Shelter / R.S. Jones (p.102) -- Runaway / Honor Moore (p.106) -- Rusty / Gordon Lish (p.109) -- The odyssey / Rick Bass (p.111`) -- Shepherd / Sheila Kobler (p.132) -- Spoon River Sadie Louise / Anne Lamott (p.133).
Cont.): Theology. Flea's hymn / Kathryn Walker (p.138) -- How to like it / Stephen Dobyns (p.140) -- My shepherd / Heather McHugh (p.143) -- Max's lecture on canine Buddhism / Amy Gerstler (p.145) -- The dogman / John Rybicki (p.146) -- Greta's song / Matthew Graham (p.148) -- Beau : golden retrievals / Mark Doty (p.150) -- Pet names / Bernard Cooper (p.152) -- Memento mori. Envoy / Walter Kirn (p.154) -- Devotion / Susan Minot (p.155) -- Hunting accident / Alicia Munoz (p.156) -- Gus speaks / Maxine Kumin (p.157) -- Coach / Wyatt Prunty (p.160) -- Samantha / Edward Albee (p.162) -- When I died on my birthday / Kate Clakr Spencer (p.164) -- Out / Anderson Ferrell (p.166) -- The dog / Gerald Stern (p.168) -- Buster's visitation / Stephen Dunn (p.170) -- Stay / Ben Sonnenberg (p.172).
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