A collection of poems celebrating the joys of felines, from cuddly kittens to tomcats. The book is an uplifting anthology of modern verse that addresses love, friendship and the unique relationship that forms between every cat lover and his or her pet. Ferris Cook's touching and amusing charcoal drawings of cats accompany each poem, and the book features the work of Langston Hughes, John Kcats, Rainer Maria Rilke, Charles Baudelaire, Pablo Neruda, Amy Lowell, Emily Dickinson and many others. To a cat / Jorge Luis Borges Cat / Joan Aiken The cat to his dinner / Nancy Willard Ode to the cat / Pablo Neruda

55 / Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A cat's conscience / Anonymous Sonnet to a cat / John Keats The kitten / Ogden Nash The cat as cat / Denise Levertov The cats / Weldon Kees Little cats / Langston Hughes Catalog / Rosalie Moore For a deaf Angora cat / William Jay Smith To Winky / Amy Lowell Poem / William Carlos Williams Luxury / May Sarton Cats / Charles Baudelaire The tom-cat / Don Marquis What the whiskers measure / Maurya Simon You know how a cat / James Laughlin On the death of a cat / Christina Rossetti She sights a bird, she chuckles / Emily Dickinson Cat & the weather / May Swenson Black cat / Rainer Maria Rilke Catnip and dogwood / Howard Moss Curiosity / Alastair Reid The Kilkenny cats / Anonymous