Mark Doty, Author . HarperCollins $22 (96p) ISBN 978-0-06-621013-1
Doty's sixth book of verse (the first since his memoir Firebird) continues his exploration of gay male desire and post-AIDS mourning amid vividly rendered scenes from Manhattan, Provincetown, rural Vermont and Latin America. Doty (Atlantis; My...
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Mark Doty, Author . HarperCollins $22.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-06-075245-3
Doty's vivid, inviting, descriptive verse, his celebrations of gay men's sexuality, and his heartfelt, skillful elegies, many of them in response to the HIV crisis, were '90s mainstays. Though he begins this consistently moving seventh...
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Mark Doty, Author . HarperCollins $23.95 (215p) ISBN 978-0-06-117100-0
Award-winning memoirist (Firebird
) and poet (School of the Arts
) Doty explores, with compassion and intelligence, the complicated, loving territory inhabited by devoted dogs and their loyal humans. In 1994, when the author's longtime lover was
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Mark Doty, Author . HarperCollins $22.95 (325p) ISBN 978-0-06-075247-7
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Doty's first book, Turtle, Swan
, appeared in 1987. He has published six books of poetry and four memoirs, all excellent, since. This hefty selection from his seven collections, plus a generous sheaf of
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Mark Doty, Graywolf, $12 (152p) ISBN 978-1-55597-563-0
"To use words at all is to use them figuratively," says Doty in his writing guide, part of Graywolf's "The Art of…" series. As both a National Book Award-winning poet (Fire to Fire) and accomplished memoirist (Dog Years), Doty is not only qualified...
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Mark Doty, Author HarperCollins $25 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-019374-4
Doty, an award-winning poet (Atlantis) and memoirist (Heaven's Coast) has penned an autobiography of his early years that, while beautifully and sensitively written, is more moving intellectually than emotionally. Using his family history and...
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Mark Doty, Author HarperCollins Publishers $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-017210-7
In this luminous study of illness and loss, the acclaimed poet (author of My Alexandria and Atlantis) recounts how his lover of eight years, Wally Roberts, learned from a Vermont social worker in May 1989 that he was HIV-positive (while Doty tested...
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Mark Doty, Author Harper Perennial $22 (103p) ISBN 978-0-06-055362-3
Doty's fourth collection, coming after the 1993 National Book Critics' Circle award-winning My Alexandria, is anchored in the lush and pressing world of loss. He begins calmly with sensually descriptive poems that fully observe the complex...
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Mark Doty. Norton, $25.95 (80p) ISBN 978-0-393-07023-1
Doty (Sweet Machine), whose Fire to Fire won the 2008 National Book Award, will sate his many admirers with this eighth collection. Having gained renown for his self-consciously beautiful, heart-on-sleeve elegies about the devastations of HIV/AIDS,...
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Mark Doty, Author, Mark Doty, Read by , read by the author. HarperAudio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-123401-9
Doty brings a mellow, soft-spoken dignity to the narration of his memoir, which chronicles the lives of the distinguished poet and author’s beloved retrievers, Arden and Beau. The narrative thread comes together in the form of essays evoking...
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Mark Doty, Author, Philip Levine, Foreword by University of Illinois Press $15.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-252-06317-6
Doty's ( Turtle, Swan ) third volume, selected by Levine for the 1993 National Poetry Series, is built around impermanence: a glass sculpture, a human lover. Opening the collection with a detailed portrait of a building being demolished, Doty moves...
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Edited by Mark Doty; series editor, David Lehman. Scribner, $16 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-4391-8152-2
Now in its 25th year, the Best American Poetry anthologies have become something of a yearbook for American versifiers. The 2012 volume runs the gamut of styles and positions, from the experimentally mixed registers of Rae Armantrout (“Information...
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