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  • The Art of Description

    World into Word

    by Mark Doty ...
    Series series Art of...
    "It sounds like a simple thing, to say what you see," Mark Doty begins. "But try to find words for the shades of a mottled sassafras leaf, or the reflectivity of a bay on an August morning, or the very beginnings of desire stirring in the gaze of someone looking right into your eyes . . ." Doty finds refuge in the sensory experience found in poems by Blake, Whitman, Bishop, and others. The Art of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • What Is the Grass

    Walt Whitman in My Life

    by Mark Doty ...
    “[An] incisive, personal mediation.” —New York Times Book ReviewMark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitman’s perennially new American voice, and by his equally radical claims about body and soul. In What Is the Grass, Doty effortlessly blends biography, criticism, and memoir to keep company with Whitman and his Leaves of Grass, tracing the resonances between his own experience and the ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Firebird

    A Memoir

    by Mark Doty ...
    "A beautifully written, hallucinatorily evocative memoir of growing up gay in baby-boom America." — NewsweekIn his powerful autobiography, Firebird, Mark Doty tells the story of a ten-year-old in a top hat, cane, and red chiffon scarf, interrupted while belting out Judy Garland's "Get Happy" by his alarmed mother at the bedroom door, exclaiming, "Son, you're a boy!"Firebird presents us with a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Dog Years

    A Memoir

    by Mark Doty ...
    A Washington Post Book World Best Book of the YearWinner of the Israel Fishman-Stonewall Book Award for Nonfiction"Tender and amusing. . . . Doty brilliantly captures the qualities that make dogs endearing." -- The New YorkerWhen Mark Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he brings home Beau, a large, malnourished golden retriever in need of loving care. Joining Arden, ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Still Life with Oysters and Lemon

    On Objects and Intimacy

    by Mark Doty ...
    Mark Doty's prose has been hailed as "tempered and tough, sorrowing and serene" (The New York Times Book Review) and "achingly beautiful" (The Boston Globe). In Still Life with Oysters and Lemon he offers a stunning exploration of our attachment to ordinary things-how we invest objects with human store, and why. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Deep Lane

    Poems

    by Mark Doty ...
    “His best work yet . . . astute, contemplative, and deeply moving.” —Washington PostMark Doty’s poetry has long been celebrated for its risk and candor, an ability to find transcendent beauty even in the mundane and grievous, an unflinching eye that—as Philip Levine says—“looks away from nothing.” In the poems of Deep Lane the stakes are higher: there is more to lose than ever before, and there is ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Fire to Fire

    New and Selected Poems

    by Mark Doty ...
    “Fire to Fire should solidify Doty’s position as a star of contemporary American poetry. . . . The poems combine close attention to the fragile, contingent things of the world with the constant, almost unavoidable chance of transcendence.” — Publishers WeeklyA landmark collection of new and published works by one of our finest poets that is a testament to the clarity and thoughtful lyricism of his ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Best American Poetry 2012

    Series Editor David Lehman

    by Mark Doty ...
    Mark Doty brings the vitality and imagination that illuminate his own work to his selections for the twenty-fifth volume in the Best American Poetry series. He has chosen poems of high moral earnestness and poems in a comic register; poems that tell stories and poems that test the boundaries of innovative composition. This landmark edition includes David Lehman’s keen look at American poetry in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Sweet Machine

    Poems by

    by Mark Doty ...
    Mark Doty's last two award-winning collections of poetry, as well as his acclaimed memoir Heaven's Coast, used the devastation of AIDS as a lens through which to consider questions of loss, love and identity. The poems in Sweet Machine see the world from a new, hard-won perspective: A coming back to life, after so much death, a way of seeing the body's "sweet machine" not simply as a time bomb, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • School of the Arts

    Poems

    by Mark Doty ...

    $6.99 USD

  • Heaven's Coast

    A Memoir

    by Mark Doty ...

    Was $13.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • Atlantis

    Poems by

    by Mark Doty ...

    $12.99 USD