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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

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

About Mark Doty

Born in Maryville, Tennessee, Mark Doty holds a BA from Drake University and an MFA from Goddard College. My Alexandria (University of Illinois Press, 1993) was chosen by Philip Levine for the National Poetry Series and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; its British edition made Doty the first American poet to win the T. S. Eliot Prize. Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins, 2008) received the National Book Award. Other collections include Atlantis (HarperCollins, 1995) and Deep Lane (W. W. Norton, 2015). He has also published four memoirs.

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