Sweet Machine - Softcover

Doty, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0224051199 ISBN 13: 9780224051194

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 1998

Synopsis

The three books that brought Mark Doty acclaim - the poetry collections My Alexandria and Atlantis, and the prose memoir Heaven's Coast - dealt unflinchingly with love and its loss. The poems in this new book are from a man transfigured and elevated by grief, and the tone throughout is one of celebration at the majesty, the impossible splendour of the living world. Whether the subject is golden retrievers or humpback whales, Delft tiles or Murano glass, lilacs on Third Avenue or turtles on Broadway, these are exquisite, transcendent hymns of praise: sensuous, brilliant and thrillingly alive.

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About the Author

The author of nine previous books of poetry and five books of prose, Mark Doty’s many honours include the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and T. S. Eliot Prize. He lives in New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0224051199
• ISBN 13: 9780224051194
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 112