Great Cat Poems about Cats

Name: Great Cat Poems about Cats
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ISBN: 9781400043347

ISBN-10: 1400043344

ISBN-13: 9781400043347

Edition: 2005

Authors: Emily Fragos

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This delightful anthology gives us a teeming litter of literary tributes to the ever-fascinating, ever-mystifying cat. The feline has inspired poetic adoration since the days of the pharaohs, and the poems collected here cover an astonishing range of periods, cultures, and styles. Poets across the continents and centuries have described the feline family–from kittens to old toms, pussycats to panthers–doing what they do best: sleeping, prowling, prancing, purring, sleeping some more, and gazing disdainfully at lesser beings like ourselves. Here are Yeats’s Minnaloushe, Christopher Smart’s Jeoffry, Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire Cat, T. S. Eliot’s Rum Tum Tugger, William Blake’s tyger and Rilke’s…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/3/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 4.40" wide x 6.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

EMILY FRAGOS is an award-winning poet who teaches creative writing at NYU and Columbia University. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, and The Paris Review. She is the author of a collection of poetry, Little Savage and editor of the anthologies The Great Cat, The Dance, and Music's Spell. She lives in New York City.



From The seventy-five praises of Ra



Chang Tuan's cats



Cat



From Jubilate Agno



Hodge, the cat



A lion in winter



White cats



From The Divan-i Kabir



The spring is a cat



The cat show



White cat blues



Without violence



The singing cat



At the grave of Elizabeth Bishop



The tyger



The cat's eye


The cat


'Ultra-pink peony'


Black cat



To a cat



The cats will know



The cat



The rabbit as king of the ghosts



The thing about cats



Cat



The panther



The sphinx



Cat scat



The cats of Greece



The cat of the house



The vain cat



Sisterhood



From Cat



'Cat, you tumble down the street'



The cats of St. Nicholas



Magic cats



The cat and the moon



Every cat had a story



Poem



The Cheshire cat



This is my chair



The cat and the wind



Cat



From The cat in the hat



Cat jacks



The cats of Kilkenny


Nine fat cats in Little Italy



Pangur Ban


Morning



Apartment cats



From To a cat



From The spinster's sweet-arts



From Dame Wiggins of Lee and her seven wonderful cats



From Two songs of a fool



The flying petunias



Who will feed my cat?


Cat in an empty apartment



From The cat and the cock



The cats have come to tea



The cat



The lover, whose mistresse feared a mouse, declareth that he would become a cat if he might have his desire



My cat and I



Propriety



Pussycat sits on a chair



An appeal to cats in the business of love



'Arise from sleep, old cat'


'Why so scrawny, cat?'


'Amorous cat, alas'


The cats of Balthus



Cats



Alley cat love song



A lost painting by Balthus



Woman and cat



The owl and the pussy-cat



Curse of the cat woman



Lullaby for the cat



The happy cat



Cat on the mat



Cat's dream



From Peter



Cat



Cats sleep fat



Catsnest



Cat & the weather



Verses on a cat



Five eyes



The cat



'Pussy-cat, pussy-cat'


'There was a wee bit mousikie'


The rat-catcher and cats



By threes, by fours



'Lat take a cat' (from The Maunciple's tale)



Cat and mouse



'My hermitage'


The old cat and the young mouse



Cat



Forest



The lazy pussy



'She sights a bird'



A cat



Song of the lioness for her cub


Catnip and dogwood



The prayer of the cat



The single creature



A cat's conscience


Mother Tabbyskins



I married my dog



'Confound the cats!'



A fable of the widow and her cat



The cat and the lute



From Sad memories



Justice



To Mrs. Professor in defense of my cat's honor and not only



From The churlyshe cat



Epitaph



From The kitten and falling leaves



Chaplinesque



The young cat and the chrysanthemums



Beware of kittens



Familiarity dangerous



From Through the looking glass



Dawn


Pinkle purr



The three little kittens



From The kitten



To a cat



On a cat, ageing



Hoppy



A 14-year-old convalescent cat in the winter



Montague Michael


Cat



December cats



My old cat dances



Esther's tomcat



From Nine lives



Putting down the cat



On the death of a cat



From Song for mourning a cat



From Cold mountain poems



An offering for the cat



On the death of a cat, a friend of mine aged ten years and a half



From Matthias



Ode on the death of a favourite cat, drowned in a tub of goldfishes



Last words to a dumb friend



As you were saying



From Chansons innocents



The blue bowl



The epitaph of Felis