Reading Book of Dog at the Rumpus November 5, 2012: Camille Dungy chose Cleopatra Mathis's Book of Dog for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club. Why, you may ask? Here's why: I don’t really even care for dogs, but reading Book of Dog I care, very deeply, for three dogs and a pack of coyotes. I care about a spider and a day old mouse. I care about an over-wintering beetle, a drowning chipmunk [...] by Harriet Staff