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Deep LanePoems by Mark Doty
Category: Poetry & Plays
Mark Doty's poetry has long been celebrated for its risk and candor, an ability to find transcendent beauty even in the mundane and grievous, an unflinching eye that--as Philip Levine says--"looks away from nothing." In the poems of Deep Lane the stakes are higher: there is more to lose than ever before ...Show more
Dog Years by Mark Doty
Category: Biography
The story of the acclaimed poet's time with his two beloved retrievers - and a poignant, perceptive meditation on life, death, and the nature of canine companionship. Why do dogs speak so profoundly to our inner lives? When Mark Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he find ...Show more
Dog Years : A Memoir by Mark Doty
Category: Biography Memoir
Why do dogs speak so profoundly to our inner lives? When Mark Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he finds himself bringing home Beau, a large golden retriever, malnourished and in need of loving care, to join Arden, the black retriever. As Beau bounds back to life, the two ...Show more
My Alexandria by Mark Doty
Category: Poetry
MY ALEXANDRIA comprises a series of eloquent meditations on the essential themes- mortality and life, beauty and loss. The collection is haunted by the spectre of AIDS, buts transfigured by Mark Doty's ranging imagination, effortless stylistic skill and huge emotional power. 'The courage of this book is ...Show more
Still Life With Oysters and Lemon by Mark Doty
Category: Art
From Mark Doty, one of our finest poets, a delicate and sensual literary essay. Part memoir, part art history, part meditation, this hybrid volume uses the great Dutch still life paintings of the seventeenth century as a departure point for an examination of questions about our relationships with things ...Show more
What Is the Grass - Walt Whitman in My Life by Mark Doty
Category: Biography
Mark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitman's bold, perennially new American voice, and by his equally radical claims about body and soul and what it means to be a self. In What Is the Grass, Doty--a poet, a New Yorker, and an American--keeps company with Whitman and his Leaves of Grass, tracing t ...Show more
What is the Grass Walt Whitman in My Life by Mark Doty
Category: Biography
Effortlessly blending biography, criticism, and memoir, prize-winning poet Mark Doty explores his personal quest for Walt Whitman. 'Marvellous. He sends you straight back to the text, makes you feel like you're returning to an old love' GuardianWhat does it mean to be a self?Mark Doty has always felt ha ...Show more
What is the Grass: Walt Whitman in my Life by Mark Doty
Category: Biography
Mark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitman's bold, new American voice, and by his equally radical claims about body and soul and what it means to be a self. In What Is the Grass, Doty - a poet, a lover of men, a New Yorker, and an American - keeps company with Whitman and his mutable, landmark wo ...Show more
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