Summary
Mark 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 ‘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 more for us to gain.
‘Pure appetite,’ he writes ironically early in the collection, ‘I wouldn’t know anything about that.’ And the following poem answers:
Down there the little …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224099837 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0224099833 |
| Author: | Mark Doty |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2015 |
| Weight: | 96g |
| Dimensions: | 9mm x 132mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Deep Lane , [Doty’s] best work yet, is astute, contemplative and deeply moving.
Deep Lane, [Doty’s] best work yet, is astute, contemplative and deeply moving. * Washington Post *
Mark Doty’s ninth collection displays his customary gift for emphatic observation, collapsing the distance between poet and subject to establish an observance of both secular and sexual mysteries. – W N Herbert * Literary Review *
Full of urban romanticism, with images of delving and desire and the search for “the wild unsayable”, mixed in with wonderings about his parents. – John Walsh * Independent *
The collection is permeated with a sense of finding depth, travelling downward and into roots. – Charlotte Runcie * Daily Telegraph *
Mark Doty
Mark Doty is the author of more than ten volumes of poetry and three memoirs. His many honors include the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, and, in the UK, the T. S. Eliot Prize. He is a professor at Rutgers University and lives in New York City.
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