Dog Days of the Pandemic Summer, by Dr. Adrienne Amundsen, is a poetic journey through the desperate years of the coronavirus pandemic and the Trump administration put in the larger context of our relationship with nature, politics and principles, and the human community. How do we find meaning and comfort during difficult, even cata-strophic, times? Dr. Amundsen's poems provide a window, even a door, that opens onto a deeper understanding of what's at stake and how to sur--vive these trying times.