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Mark Doty


Born
in Maryville, TN, The United States
August 10, 1953

Genre
Poetry, Biographies & Memoirs


Mark Doty is a poet, essayist, and memoirist. He is the author of ten books of poetry, including Deep Lane and Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, which won the National Book Award. He lives in New York, New York.

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Still Life with a Hundred Crucifixions


Aaron Smith's new collection, PRIMER, is due from Pitt on October 5 of this year. Here's a dead-on comment from Tracy K. Smith about Aaron's work: "Aaron Smith is an expert at locating the spaces within spaces. ...he zeroes in on the places where doubt and possibility collide and unsettle our beliefs. (His poems) are graceful, full of humility and hard fact, and they aren’t afraid... Tracy act Read more of this blog post »
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Dog Years
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Still Life with Oysters and...
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My Alexandria
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Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
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Fire to Fire
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Sweet Machine
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Deep Lane: Poems
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“Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.”
― Mark Doty
tags: feelings, life, living, love, philosophy
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“Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral courage, or heroism, or altruistic acts, or work in the cause of social change? What about wealth or accomplishment? And yet something about it rings true, finally—that what we want is to be brought into relationship, to be inside, within. Perhaps it’s true that nothing matters more to us than that.”
― Mark Doty, Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
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“And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.”
― Mark Doty
tags: breath, death, dying, kiss, life, old-age
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