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“If it were mine to invent the poet to
complete the century of William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens, I would
create Mark Doty just as he is, a maker of big, risky, fearless poems in which
ordinary human experience becomes music.” — Philip Levine “With his clarity of vision and great
heart, Doty stands among us an emblematic and shining presence.” —Stanley Kunitz “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 Mark Doty is
the author of eight books of poems, among them Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, School of the Arts, Source, and My
Alexandria. He has also published four volumes of nonfiction prose:
Still
Life with Oysters and Lemon, Heaven's
Coast, Firebird and Dog Years, which was a New York Times bestseller in 2007. Doty’s poems have appeared in many magazines including The
Atlantic Monthly, The London
Review of Books, Ploughshares, Poetry, and The New Yorker.
Widely anthologized, his poems appear in The Norton
Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry and many other collections. Doty has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times
Book Prize, a Whiting Writers Award, two Lambda Literary
Awards and the PEN/Martha Albrand
Award for First Nonfiction. He is the only American poet to have received the T.S. Eliot Prize
in the U.K., and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill and Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Foundations,
and from the National Endowment for the Arts. Doty lives in New York City and in Houston,
Texas, where he is John and Rebecca Moores Professor in the graduate program at the University
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