Taking a Walk in My Animal Hat: Poems (Harmony Poetry Series) Kindle Edition

Poet Charlene Fix, in Taking a Walk in My Animal Hat (Bottom Dog Press), guides us on a “journey through owl,” “the vexed wind,” and “tongue without words,” into lives of beloved pets, children, parents, domestic and wild animals. Alert to threads that connect our animal nature with animals themselves, Charlene calls upon literature, art, philosophy, and cartoons to assist her in focusing deeply on life. Hers is a light touch, generous with humor, that treats mortality without either heaviness or sentimentality. In poems both accessible and delicious in the mouth, she asks that we find value in the animal world, for it is our world. Kathleen S. Burgess author of What Burden Do Those Trains Bear Away

How full of grace it is to be open to the life of other creatures., and how splendid Charlene Fix's poetry of empathy.In my long life, I never was companion to a dog, but after reading Fix, I want to be! Dewlaps, yes.