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5 reviews
Mark Doty

Harper Perennial, 1998

Immortal
Rarely do you come across a poet able to maintain a voice as pure and frank as Mark Doty's. He approaches prevalent themes such as grief, loss, and love with enchanting diction, virtue, and elegance. Beyond his ability to achieve the perfect balance of lyric, image, narrative, mystery, and form, his unwavering beauty (I think) lies somewhere in the synergy of candor and compassion, as in the ...

Still Life With Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy

4 reviews
Mark Doty

Beacon Press, 2002

A seamless merging of painting and poetry
Mark Doty has done the impossible. In STILL LIFE WITH OYSTERS AND LEMON he has not only written an extended essay (read epic poem) about his encounter with a simple Dutch Still Life painting, but he has also produced what must become the definitive map for looking, seeing, studying and describing the essence of art in a way that encourages us all to return to the pursuit of beauty. Doty has ...

Firebird: A Memoir

11 reviews
Mark Doty

Harper Perennial, 2000

Evolution of a poet
It's not always a pretty story, but it's always intellectually and emotionally moving. Mark Doty is one of America's finest writers of poetry and prose. That such a mind should have triumphed over his stressful growing up years is remarkable. His background would have landed many other kids in a foster home. Firebird is a coming-of-age memoir of a pre-gay geeky kid with a deranged and alcoholic ...

Dog Years: A Memoir (P.S.)

26 reviews
Mark Doty

Harper Perennial, 2008

Simply superb.
Mark Doty has penned an absolute gem of a memoir that touches not only on our umbreakable bonds with our animals, but also with our mates and the many places that we will call "home" throughout our lives - and the grief that we all must embrace and learn from in the loss of all of these. His story of Wally, Arden and Beau is a masterpiece of the heartfelt thoughts and feelings that all dog ...

Duino Elegies and the Sonnets of Orpheus

3 reviews
Rainer Maria Rilke

Mariner Books, 2005

one of many useful translations
"Nonce " doesn't need to wait for another poet to translate Rilke. There are already lots of superb choices, each of which lends a different quality to the work. What's best about these Poulin versions is their clarity. Stephen Mitchell has found a supple, authoritative voice for an American version of Rilke, and Edward Snow has done vivid and forceful translations, too, especially of the New ...

Heaven's Coast: A Memoir

31 reviews
Mark Doty

Harper Perennial, 1997

5 stars aren't nearly enough
Doty's memoir shimmers with love, with joy, with pain, with grief. His prose is as rich and lyrical as his poetry. He invites us into his soul as he describes in unsparing detail his lover's journey through HIV. Doty honors his partner with every word; the love and respect is obvious, as well as the despair that results from knowing what is to come and being totally powerless to prevent it. ...

Atlantis: Poems by

5 reviews
Mark Doty

Harper Perennial, 1995

The new Romanticism
For contemorary readers who hunger for the melody and cadence, imagery of nature, strong personal emotion, and idealism of poetry in the Romantic tradition, Mark Doty has emerged with a lyrical style reminiscent of Shelly or Keats. The most immediately appealing feature of his work is its sheer lyric loveliness. Loveliness does not stand high these days in the vocabulary of critical praise, but ...

Poetry and Commitment
Adrienne Rich

W. W. Norton, 2007

In the traditional of great literary manifestos, Norton is proud to present this powerful work by Adrienne Rich. With passion, critical questioning, and humor, Adrienne Rich suggests how poetry has actually been lived in the world, past and present. In this essay, which was the basis for her speech upon accepting the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, she ranges among themes including poetry's ...

My Alexandria: POEMS (National Poetry Series)

6 reviews
Mark Doty

University of Illinois Press, 1993

Beauty and Sadness
My Alexandria is undoubtedly one of my favorite volumes of poetry written within the last ten years. Doty's aesthetic reminds me of the aesthetic of the great Japanese woodblock artists -- "mono no aware" -- beauty and sadness. These are poems of haunting emotional resonance and power that are exquisitely rendered in beautifully crafted, ravishingly polished arabesques of language. Doty's ...

Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems

1 review
Mark Doty

Harper, 2008

A quintessential poetry experience.......a must have for any serious reader or writer of contemporary American poetry!
Mark Doty is one poet who continually astonishes me. I read his work and am always swept up in his lush vocabulary, the musicality of his language, the richness of details in the images he creates of the natural world. Suddenly, I realize, usually with an audible gasp, that he has taken me somewhere unexpected; he led me gently somewhere I can make meaning in a much more personal context. One ...

Murano

3 reviews
Mark Doty

Getty Publications, 2000

A Treasure Trove of Glass and Words
I believe that Mark Doty is one of the world's best poets, and have bought most of his books and memoirs. I bought this for my former wife as a birthday gift. She is not a poetry fan, but loves this book. She keeps it on the table in her waiting room with some other reading materials and tells me she has had eight or ten patients ask where they could buy the book. A treaure trove of stunning ...

Source: Poems

8 reviews
Mark Doty

Harper Perennial, 2002

Elegance! Compassion! A Real Pleasure!
Mark Doty in his latest collection of poems, continues to delight and entertain us with his brilliant style of writing that is elegant, compassionate, and unabashedly, and proudly gay. These poems are of a universal language, speaking to all sexual orientations, for they are not all gay themed verses. Doty's poems are always a real pleasure to read for they speak from the heart on subjects that ...

School of the Arts: Poems

1 review
Mark Doty

Harper Perennial, 2006

A Lyrical Master's Best Work Yet
Wow! I really can't understand why Mark Doty's most recent poetry collection hasn't been reviewed here yet, in light of its considerable popularity among the critics. Everyone seems to be hailing this book as a seminal author-finally-finding-his-own-unique-voice sort of work, a more precise definition of Doty's stylistic approach, but it seems to me to be fairly in line with the rest of his ...

Heaven's Coast A Memoir
Mark Doty

Harper Collins, 1996

dog years
Mark Doty

Harper Collins Publisher, 2007

Dog Years CD: A Memoir

1 review

HarperAudio, 2007

Dog Years
This book really hit home with both me and my husband. Our 11 year old yellow passed away just about a month ago. I had read the book a few months ago but my husband heard it on the Audio CDs a week after our Thumper's death. It was ironic that the author was his first advisor at Goddard College in the 80's and was a great help to him then and now. For any dog owned person it is a must read. ...

Stigmata Errata Etcetera (Artist/Poet Collaboration)
Bill Knott

Saturnalia Books, 2007

Mark Doty introduces this stunning new collection, the third in Saturnalia Books new Artist/Poet Collaboration series. Bill Knott has to be the only poet who can claim to have been for nearly forty years now at the head of both the avant-garde and the rear-garde of American poetry. Meticulous and formal, yet wildly inventive, Knott is among the very finest poets living today. Paired perfectly with his poems is the surreal and oddly beautiful ...

Seeing Venice: Bellotto's Grand Canal

3 reviews

Getty Publications, 2002

A MINI TREASURE
"Seeing Venice" - just the title is inviting. Who would not want to see this incomparable city, whether for the first time or again and again? Mark Doty, poet and National Book Critics Circle Award winner, presents the Getty Museum's "View of the Grand Canal" in a lyrical essay accompanied by intriguing details from the painting. Doty calls our attention to various aspects of this masterpiece ...

Open House: Writers Redefine Home-Graywolf Forum Five
Mark Doty

Graywolf Press, 2003

Twenty Writers Define Home In All of Its Complexity and Variety "Where do I live? I don’t have a ready answer, not really, but I’ve realized there’s something I like about not having an answer. And indeed something of that spirit—a curious, open engagement with the now, in its slippery and uncertain character—animates this book." —Mark Doty, from his Introduction In a shifting world, concepts of place ...

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