Mark doty demolition
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“A new book of poems—or of anything—by Mark Doty is good news in a dark time. The precision, daring, scope, elegance of his compassion and of the language in which he embodies it are a reassuring pleasure.” —W. S. Merwin
“Doty pushes the boundaries of thought and form, always searching and considering and never wavering in his attempt to not only understand the world but determine the best way to ‘be’ in it.” —Booklist
“Doty brilliantly renders the majesty of distinctive creatures and the abiding presence of people and places that no longer exist. Apparitions and hard-won insights shape his hunger for the Divine.” —Washington Post
Praised by the New York Times for his “dazzling, tactile grasp of the world,” Mark Doty is a renowned author of poetry and prose. He is the author of three memoirs: the New York Times-bestselling Dog Years (HarperCollins, 2007), Firebird (1999), and Heaven’s Coast (1997), as well as a book about craft and criticism, The Art of Description: World Into Word, part of the popular “Art of” series published by Graywolf Press. Throughout
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Mark Doty, a distinguished poet, has published seven volumes of poetry, among them School of the Arts, Source, Sweet Machine, Atlantis, and My Alexandria. He is also known for his three memoirs, all of which concentrate on stories of loss, grief, and renewal. Heaven’s Coast (1996) details the death of his partner from AIDS, Firebird (1999 recounts the story of his own rough childhood, and, most recently, Dog Years (2007) lovingly evokes the strange, strong bonds between dogs and their humans. Doty has received many awards and fellowships, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Whiting Award, and two Lambda Literary Awards. He is the only American poet to have received the T.S. Eliot Prize in the U.K. Doty now teaches at the University of Houston, where he is John and Rebecca Moores Professor in the creative writing program. In 2006 he was a member of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference faculty.
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Mark Doty
Mark Doty was born in Maryville, Tennessee, on August 10, 1953. He is the author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently Deep Lane (W. W. Norton, 2015); A Swarm, A Flock, A Host: A Compendium of Creatures (Prestel, 2013); Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins, 2008), which received the National Book Award; School of the Arts (HarperCollins, 2005); Source (HarperCollins, 2002); and Sweet Machine (HarperCollins, 1998). Other collections include Atlantis (HarperCollins, 1995), which received the Ambassador Book Award, the Bingham Poetry Prize, and a Lambda Literary Award; My Alexandria (University of Illinois Press, 1993), chosen by Philip Levine for the National Poetry Series, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and Britain’s T. S. Eliot Prize, and a National Book Award finalist; Bethlehem in Broad Daylight (D.R. Godine, 1991); and Turtle, Swan (D.R. Godine, 1987).
In 2010, Graywolf Press published Doty’s collection of essays on poetry titled The Art of Description: World into Word, in which Doty ass
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