Sweet Machine: Poems
by Doty, MarkEdition: 1st
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Publisher(s): HarperCollins Publications
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Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| Favrile | p. 3 |
| White Kimono | p. 8 |
| Where You Are | p. 11 |
| Lilies in New York | p. 16 |
| Fog Suite | p. 21 |
| Messiah (Christmas Portions) | p. 29 |
| Dickeyville Grotto | p. 33 |
| Concerning Some Recent Criticism of His Work | p. 36 |
| Concerning Some Recent Criticism of His Work | p. 37 |
| Metro North | p. 39 |
| One of the Rooming Houses of Heaven | p. 49 |
| Emerald | p. 50 |
| Murano | p. 55 |
| Thirty Delft Tiles | p. 65 |
| The Embrace | p. 73 |
| White Pouring | p. 77 |
| Retrievers in Translation | p. 81 |
| Golden Retrievals | p. 84 |
| Shelter | p. 85 |
| Door to the River | p. 88 |
| My Tattoo | p. 95 |
| Sweet Machine | p. 98 |
| Lilacs in NYC | p. 102 |
| Mercy on Broadway | p. 106 |
| Visitation | p. 113 |
| Notes | p. 117 |
| About the Author | p. 118 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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