
Sweet Machine
Mark Doty(Author)
HarperCollins (Publisher)
Published on 4. March 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
117 pages
978-0-06-095256-3 (ISBN)
Description
Mark Doty's last two award-winning collections of poetry, as well as his acclaimed memoir "Heaven's Coast, " used the devastation of AIDS as a lens through which to consider questions of loss, love and identity. The poems in his new collection, "Sweet Machine, " 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York, NY
United States
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
237 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-06-095256-3 (9780060952563)
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Mark Doty's books of poetry and nonfiction prose have been honored with numerous distinctions, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and, in the United Kingdom, the T. S. Eliot Prize. In 2008, he won the National Book Award for Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems. He is a professor at the University of Houston, and he lives in New York City.