Dogs of Brooklyn

by Susan DeFord

Overview

DOGS OF BROOKLYN is a fresh poetic narrative about Susie DeFord’s colorful life as a dog walker in Brooklyn accompanied by vivid photographs by Dennis Riley. DeFord examines the challenge and exhilaration of city life while celebrating the human-animal bond. DOGS OF BROOKLYN is a must read for city and animal lovers alike.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013903579
Publisher:	Dog Poet Laureate Press
Publication date:	12/21/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	101
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Susie DeFord studied writing at Florida State University, and received her MFA from the New School University. Her work has appeared in BOMB, Poets and Artists, Mipoesias, Work Zine, Dog Fancy, Shampoo, the Anthology "Dogs Singing," amongst others. She has taught writing at Brooklyn Friends School, Berkeley Carroll, and the College of New Rochelle. Susie is a CPDT-KA dog trainer who lives in Brooklyn, where she runs Susie’s Pet Care, a dog walking, training and pet sitting business.
http://susiedeford.com/

Editorial Reviews

"Dogs bring out the best in us, and certainly they bring the best poems out of Susie DeFord. And while you'll pick up a lot of dog lore from these poems, the main thing you'll see is how she uses the dog life as a tool to explore her city, her self, and you as well, reader. For to peer into these poems is to look into the face of your favorite pooch and see there a reflection of the person you are but also the one you really want to be."

David Kirby

“Susie DeFord’s exhilarating Dogs of Brooklyn brims with the energy of the city (and animals) she loves. The writing is vigorous, the perceptions acute, and the feelings infectious. A terrific debut.” –John Koethe author of Ninety-Fifth Street

John Koethe

"From the strut of "Prospect Heights Pop" Susie DeFord lets us have it with her "swing dance bopping / big band mind" and that IT is Brooklyn with its "trash confetti streets" where Spring's pollen turns to summer's barbeque smoke and dirt. This book is studded with sonnets that thrill with their funk mixed with sophisticated end rhymes."

Barbara Hamby

“Susie DeFord’s DOGS OF BROOKLYN is a high-energy homage to a neighborhood, a borough, and a city. It offers a lament for the city’s “becoming like the suburban sprawl we all fled here to escape” while also standing as proof of the city’s vitality, its ongoing possibility for poetry. Full of dicey humor and uncommon open-heartedness for human and non-human animals alike, DOGS OF BROOKLYN celebrates the blessed state of being both one and numerous.”

Maggie Nelson

“Our canine betters, our friends since pre-history, have rarely had the justice done to them that Susie DeFord does in her wonderful poetic investigations into the life of Brooklyn's dogs, into their habits, their idiosyncrasies, and their secret longings.”
–Vijay Seshadri author of The Long Meadow

Vijay Seshardri