A delightful and surprising book of revelations - about critters and life. The poems we encounter in Mordenski's menagerie-songs, really, of crows and cows, of squirrels and butterflies and (of course) dogs-glow with insight, lyricism, and grace. By way of Mordenski's poetry, readers will come to see the animals we share the world with in a new light, in which "everything on earth/is as it is in the heavens . . . a cold but glittering gift."