Editorial Reviews
Nan Lincoln, Bar Harbor Times, September 16, 1999
"Karen Dowell's 'Cooking with Dogs' captivates with both pictures and words. Her poems and short observations about the dogs in her life should be required reading for all dog owners. Not because they will learn anything new from these little scraps of canine 'arcana,' but because she puts it so well."
Tim Hall, AKC Gazette, November 1998
"It is no surprise that Karen Dowell's former occupation was business writer; she certainly understands the economics of words. In 'Cooking with Dogs,' Dowell has crafted a series of short, vividly imagined vignettes -- prose poems really -- about life with and without her 'sons,' two rather handsome and strapping Labs pictured with the author on the dust jacket. The titles of the pieces hint at the generally playful and often experimental nature of the prose: 'If Dogs Could Fly,' 'Common Scents,' 'Sleeping Around.' At times, Dowell writes like a closet e.e. cummings, as in this excerpt from 'Dog Poets:' 'They learn young to smell emotion -- sniff around cliches to find stories pungent with spirit. Yellow graffiti. Whiffs of e.e. in urine scrawls. Territorial tales ripe with spontaneity.' The illustrations by a group of talented artists ably complement these whimsical flights of fancy, but be careful while reading 'Cooking with Dogs' or you might wind up burning ! your supper."
Cooking With Dogs
Cooking With Dogs,Karen Dowell,Two Dog Press,1891090011,American - General,Dogs,Dogs - General,Pets,Poetry
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