Hounds of Wonder: A Life in Rescue Dogs

Love, B.D.

ISBN 10: 0997415746 / ISBN 13: 9780997415742

Published by Highpoint Executive Publishing, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hounds of Wonder: A Life in Rescue Dogs
• Publisher: Highpoint Executive Publishing
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0997415746
• ISBN 13: 9780997415742
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Taylor, Walt
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

“A compelling sincerity and kindness can be found in B.D. Love’s Hounds of Wonder: A Life in Rescue Dogs.  Love’s sonnets are the work of a poet whose commitment to his craft is equal to his keen ability to chronicle the details of the lives of eleven very different dogs. These abandoned dogs live ‘beside the freeway’ or are ‘trapped behind a chain link fence,’ or caged in the ‘Central Shelter’ until they are rescued by the poet. This is a personal journey told by Love, who feels the force of our human obligation to see how our culture has cast away so many dogs. Through the heartbeat meter of his sonnets, B.D. Love allows us to meet these beautiful, quirky, funny, shy, and once cruelly treated dogs.  In doing so, he reminds us that poetry is compassion and compassion is how we may rescue others.” –  Susan Cohen, co-editor of Coming of Age at the End of Nature: A Generation Faces Living on a Changed Planet

About the Author

B.D. Love is a poet and novelist with over a hundred poems published in various literary magazines, as well as four books of poetry and four novels to his name. He has been nominated for many literary awards, including most recently for the Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses in 2013 for poetry, and for the National Book Critics Circle Award 2012 for his novel A Day in the Life of a Severed Head. B.D. has taught English Composition and Creative Writing at California State University of Los Angeles for thirty years, mentoring and serving as faculty advisor to several groups including the Creative Writing Club, and as designer and editor of the Creative Writing Club Journal. In addition, B.D. Love has been involved in many community service organizations and events, specifically benefiting the Pasadena Humane Society and the Friends of the Los Angeles River.