Mark Doty est un poète, essayiste et auteur de mémoires dont l'œuvre plonge dans les profondeurs de l'expérience humaine. Sa poésie et sa prose sont célébrées pour leurs explorations perspicaces de la beauté et de la fragilité du monde, se concentrant souvent sur des thèmes tels que l'amour, la perte et la nature. Le style de Doty se caractérise par sa sensibilité et sa précision linguistique, capturant des émotions et des moments complexes avec une clarté remarquable. Son écriture offre aux lecteurs un aperçu intime de la recherche de sens et de connexion dans un monde en constante évolution.
In What Is the Grass, Doty - a poet, a lover of men, a New Yorker, and an American - keeps company with Whitman and his mutable, landmark work, Leaves of Grass, tracing the resonances between his own experience and the legendary poet's life and work.What is it, then, between us? Whitman asks.
As Beau bounds back to life, the two dogs become Mark Doty's companions, his solace, and eventually the very life force that keeps him from abandoning all hope during the darkest days - their tenacity, loyalty and love inspiring him when all else fails.
Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, a collection that gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our imaginations.From Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich, to Robert Haas and Louise Glück, this anthology takes the full measure of our poetry's daring energies and its tender understandings.Other poets Sylvia PlathJames MerrillAmy clampittJorie GrahamW. S. MerwinCharles SimicAllen GinsbergFrank O'HaraAnne SextonRobert CreeleySharon OldsMary OliverRobert PinskyMark StrandDenise LevertovRichard WilburMay SwensonMichael PalmerMark DotyYusef Komunyakaa
Poets Introduce the Essential Poems That Captivated and Inspired Them
A collection of poems selected by poets as those that first inspired them includes timeless favorites and insightful essays by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners including Roethke, Pinsky, and Heaney.