A lyrical tableau of encapsulations of grief.
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A new study explores the importance of care farming, using therapeutic spaces to treat individuals impacted by traumatic grief.
There is a care farm in Arizona where rescue animals are helping people deal with traumatic grief.
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In A Natural History of the Senses Diane Ackerman revealed herself as a naturalist who writes with the sensuous immediately of a great poet. Now Jaguar of Sweet Laughter presents the work of a poet with the precise and wondering eye of a gifted naturalist.
The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, greeting the morning, watching the deer, and, finally, lingering in happiness.
Mary Oliver’s Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet’s relationships to the canines that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work.
In Bestiary, Stephen Mitchell has collected animal poems from many ages and many cultures.