His most referenced poem, “Jubilate Agno,” opens with a long description of his cat’s relation to God — hilariously exaggerated, sharply observed, and mystically suffused with the sense that to exist ...

Thanks also to Jan Van Vliet, who helped me prepare for the reading, and for sending me a poem Don had written for me in 2001, called ‘Man Can’t Anticipate Cat,’ which I read at the end of ...

Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) is one of the most important poets in French literature (he also made a name for himself as a literary and art critic). While his early poems displayed the influence ...

His wet kiss closes my lids. Overhead a crow shrieks. At home, the cat kills another mouse, fat on the detritus of what we buy and don't eat. The Ethics Of Cats is published by Broken Sleep books ...