New collection from one of America's most popular poets.
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.
Mark Doty is one of the major figures in contemporary American
poetry, and a new book from him is always an event
*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
*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
*Times Literary Supplement*
Doty’s is a land of plenty, his poems celebrate abundance
*London Review of Books*
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