1st printing; signed by author. Fine HC in Very Good DJ. Dark brown boards, gilt letters. Bright, clean covers and spine; tightly bound; signed by author on title page; inscribed under signature '- for Arlene - | all my best | 4-29-05 | -Brattleboro - '; crisp, clean interior. DJ is bright, clean, complete; faintly scuffed on back cover. 8vo, 109 pp. Seller Inventory # M00149

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Title: School Of The Arts: Poems

Publisher: New York: HarperCollins

Publication Date: 2005

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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A collection of dark and lyrical poetic works by the award-winning author of My Alexandria focuses on the ways in which humans are educated by time and desire, in a volume that ruminates on how works of art and literature reflect an inevitability of despair.

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"Mark Doty is one of the major figures in contemporary American poetry, and a new book from him is always an event" (John Killick The North)

"The American poet Mark Doty dissents from the assumption that a plain style is more truthful than an elaborate one. Some poets are hypnotised by language and get caught flat-footed, but Doty is witty and quick... Wonderful" (Alan Marshall Daily Telegraph)

"Bishop's influence is apparent in Doty's shape-shifting, peripatetic style, his careful accumulation of sharply observed detail. While Doty has inherited from James Merrill, he shares somethign of the Bishop/Moore fondness for eccentric syntax, as well as their strength of phrasing" (Catriona O'Reilly Times Literary Supplement)

"Doty’s is a land of plenty, his poems celebrate abundance" (Colm Toibin London Review of Books)

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Member of Vermont Antiquarian Booksellers Association (VABA). Selling on ABE since 2003. My books are General Stock, including Fiction, Poetry, Biographies, Mysteries and other Literature, though I concentrate on Politics, History, Sociology, Economics, Law, Religion and scholarly works generally. I try to keep in stock works on Labor, Radicals, Progressives, Populists and Socialism. I also stock Vermont and neighboring states histories, literature, tracts and ephemera.

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