Presents reflections on our feelings for animals and the lessons they teach us about life, love, and loss. This book describes the vulnerability of dogs, the energy and joy they bring, and the gift they bear us of unconditional love.
Presents reflections on our feelings for animals and the lessons they teach us about life, love, and loss. This book describes the vulnerability of do...
The American author's homosexual lover, Wally Roberts, died of AIDS in 1993. In this book Doty tells the story of their relationship, the effect the disease had on their lives, and Roberts's death and the aftermath. He examines the nature of AIDS as opposed to other illnesses, the responses of society, the frustration of medical care, and the burden of caring for the dying at home.
The American author's homosexual lover, Wally Roberts, died of AIDS in 1993. In this book Doty tells the story of their relationship, the effect the d...
Mark Doty's poetry has long been celebrated for its risk and candour, an ability to find transcendent beauty even in the mundane and grievous, an unflinching eye that - as Philip Levine says - 'looks away from nothing'. In the poems of Deep Lane the stakes are higher: there is more to lose than ever before, and there is more for us to gain. 'Pure appetite,' he writes ironically early in the collection, 'I wouldn't know anything about that.' And the following poem answers: Down there the little star-nosed engine of desire at work all night, secretive: in the morning a new line running across...
Mark Doty's poetry has long been celebrated for its risk and candour, an ability to find transcendent beauty even in the mundane and grievous, an unfl...
