Sweet Machine - by Mark Doty (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From the award-winning author of "Heaven's Coast, Atlantis", and "My Alexandria" comes an intensely lyrical, passionate, and joyful collection of poems. This assemblage visualizes the body as "the sweet machine", a vibrant, sensual, and living thing. <p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Mark Doty's last two award-winning collections of poetry, as well as his acclaimed memoir <em>Heaven's Coast, </em> used the devastation of AIDS as a lens through which to consider questions of loss, love and identity. The poems in <em>Sweet Machine</em> 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. </p><p>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>Mark Doty's last two award-winning collections of poetry, as well as his acclaimed memoir <em>Heaven's Coast, </em> used the devastation of AIDS as a lens through which to consider questions of loss, love and identity. The poems in his new collection, <em>Sweet Machine, </em> 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Mark Doty says, 'What I love about language/is what I love about fog: /what comes between us and things/grants them shine.' What comes between Mark Doty and the things in "Sweet Machine" is the sheerest translucent membrane of regard, the astonishing gloss of his eye's sweep and pinpoint--his luminous language. Nothing escapes his gaze and nothing--death, devastation, the ghost of a gesture--escapes its sheer insistence on beauty, the world 'lustered by the veil.' Mark Doty is a master, re-painting our sad daily canvas, heightening the gold light, the diffusion, the shocked shattered glass and the artificial bath of attitude, letting us see it all arrayed, as he says, under the 'uncompromising vault of heaven.'" -- Carol Muske"Having published the first poem and the last, I thought--having read the old poems too--I had known what to expect, but the senses are always new, and Doty's loyalty to them, and to the sense they make, continues to astonish, to enlighten, to console." -- Richard Howard"Strange paradise, complete with worms', Mark Doty begins a poem. In four collections of poetry, this masterful poet writes elegies so full of life we find our hope restored. Moving, splendidly observant and unflinching, Mark Doty's poems extend the range of the American lyric poem."-- Citation for the Writer Bynner Prize for Poetry awared by the American Academy of Arts and Letters<br>
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