Sweet Machine - The Poetry Shop

Sweet Machine

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Sweet Machine - The Poetry Shop

Harper Perennial

Sweet Machine

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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 his new collection, "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, but also as a vibrant, sensual, living thing. These poems are themselves "sweet machines"--lyrical, exuberant and joyous--and they mark yet another milestone in the extraordinary career of one of our most distinguished and accomplished poets.

Book Details

ISBN:
9780060952563
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
132
Authors:
Mark Doty
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
Published Date:
1998-03-04
Language:
English

About Mark Doty

Born in Maryville, Tennessee, Mark Doty attended Drake University and received his MFA from Goddard College. His collection My Alexandria (University of Illinois Press, 1993) won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the T.S. Eliot Prize. His collection Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins, 2008) won the National Book Award. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, and the Academy of American Poets, and the Witter Bynner Prize. He teaches at Rutgers University.

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