61. The Atlantic | July/August 2001 | Lily And Bronze | Mark Doty Unbound Interviews Fallen Beauty (November 10, 1999) The poet mark doty discusseshis new memoir, Firebird, and his coming of age into queerness and art. http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/antholog/doty/lilybronze.htm

Home Current Issue Back Issues The Archive ... Subscriber Help Browse >> Fiction Food Foreign Affairs Language ... In This Issue (Contributors) More on poetry from The Atlantic Monthly. From Atlantic Unbound Interviews: "Fallen Beauty" (November 10, 1999) The poet Mark Doty discusses his new memoir, Firebird, and his coming of age into queerness and art. Also by Mark Doty: Long Point Light A Display of Mackerel The Embrace Lily and Bronze by Mark Doty Hear Mark Doty read this poem (in RealAudio Zenith June and this tower: seventeen white throats opening a tier at a time I mean the lily's giddy spire, each trumpet nothing but intent to drench in scent and pollen any approaching face. Look at them, the full flare of them, and your looking empties out; turn back and there they are, blazing: they go on arriving, as if nothing ended but our attention. Like those horses in Venice, the quadriga , four Roman bronzes stolen to Constantinople, robbed again to Venice, mounted on the facade of the basilica eight hundred years, then brought in from the chemical rain

62. Interview - 99.11.10 An interview with the author.Category Arts Literature Authors D doty, mark......November 10, 1999. mark doty's new memoir, Firebird, is both a gay comingof-agestory and a portrait of the artist as a young man. mark doty. http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/ba991110.htm

For Mark Doty, the poet and author of the new memoir Firebird, the imperfect surface is the touchstone of art November 10, 1999 M ark Doty's new memoir, Firebird, Beauty is integral to Doty's poetry beauty as splendor, shimmer, luster (all characteristic Doty words), and all of it cracked, preferably, or somehow marred. Think flea-market treasures: wine-stained silk opera gloves, or an intricately beaded black scarf, faded and frayed, with half the beads gone. Beneath the finely wrought, descriptive surfaces of Doty's poems are often complicated, difficult histories. "Nothing escapes his gaze and nothing death, devastation, the ghost of a gesture escapes its sheer insistence on beauty," the poet Carol Muske has written. As Firebird makes clear, Doty's interest in the disparity between a shell and its interior is not merely aesthetic; it stretches all the way back to childhood, finding its roots in the experience of growing up gay in 1960s America. Poems by Mark Doty from The Atlantic Monthly, with readings recorded specially for Atlantic Unbound Long Point Light A Display of Mackerel The Embrace From Atlantic Unbound Soundings: Shakespeare's Ravishing Failure (October 27, 1999)

63. Mark Doty Responds To Bloom Here in Hell mark doty. Professor Bloom reminds us of the originsof the term aesthetic in perceptiveness ; what we make of his http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR23.3/doty.html

Here in Hell Mark Doty Professor Bloom reminds us of the origins of the term aesthetic in "perceptiveness"; what we make of his argument depends on just what we think "perceptiveness" means. Bloom wants to place the aesthetic in a kind of pure realm, free of social or historical pressures-in paradise, as it were, where perennial, indelible values rule: harmony, order, the subtle, infinitely pleasing, endlessly varied shadings of meaning made by the artful arrangement of words. I'm reminded of a statement of Auden's, who wrote that a poem should be "a verbal earthly paradise, a timeless world of pure play, which gives us delight precisely because of its contrast to our historical existence with all its insoluble problems and inescapable suffering " But "perceptiveness" suggests more than an acute awareness of language and form. It connotes an equally acute eye toward reality, which is for all of us a social affair, a collaboration between the interior and the external. Auden goes on to say, "At the same time we want a poem to be true and a poet cannot bring us any truth without introducing into his poetry the problematic, the painful, the disorderly, the ugly." Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.

64. Columbia News ::: Poet Mark Doty To Read At Wallach Art Gallery On Dec. 1 For Wo AIDS Day and Day With(out) Art, the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery willhost a reading by the critically acclaimed and awardwinning poet mark doty. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/01/11/markDoty.html

the Public Affairs and Record Home Page Current News News Archive Video Briefs Video Forums ... Home Page Poet Mark Doty to Read at Wallach Art Gallery on Dec. 1 for World AIDS Day and Day With(out) Art Mark Doty To mark World AIDS Day and Day With(out) Art, the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery will host a reading by the critically acclaimed and award-winning poet Mark Doty. The event will take place on Saturday, December 1, at 4:00 p.m. at Columbia University's Wallach Art Gallery, Schermerhorn Hall, 8th floor. The reading is free and open to the public. Tim Dean, writing in "Modern American Poetry," comments that "Doty's originality lies in his making AIDS part of his poetic perspective, rather than treating it simply as an object of contemplation or analysis." Reflecting upon his increased absorption in the epidemic, Doty explains that "AIDS is no longer something I write about, but part of the way I see or speak." The speaker in the title poem of "Atlantis" (1995), Mark Doty's fourth collection of poetry, suggests that AIDS can be both a destructive and reconstituting force. not even a real word but an acronym, a vacant

65. Mark Doty Interview ... Advocate.com This boy’s life Already acclaimed for his powerful AIDS memoir, mark doty tacklesboyhood in volume 2 By Michael J. Giltz . doty Hi, this is mark. http://www.advocate.com/html/stories/796/796_doty.asp

Site menu Home Headlines Idea Ex Reviews Digital queeries Poll Forum Issue links Resources Help!!! Events Register Subscribe Out.com alyson books Sign up now for the weekly Advocate Update E-mail updates of the week's gay news. Advocate-sponsored events What's happening in your hometown? Issue links Did you see the link symbol in The Advocate? books Already acclaimed for his powerful AIDS memoir, Mark Doty tackles boyhood in volume 2 Poet and memoirist Mark Doty has been best known until now as the author of his unsparing, critically acclaimed account of losing his lover to AIDS complications. With his second memoir, Firebird (out this month from HarperCollins), Doty unleashes his dark sense of humor as he re-creates his boyhood amid a steadily deteriorating family structure. The writer gives out with some notable childhood war stories in his interview with Advocate reporter Michael Giltz: Doty: Hi, this is Mark. Giltz: How are you? Is this a good time? Well, this will give you a chance to practice your quotes, and then you can repeat them 300 or 400 times. You know that I will eventually.

66. Sweet Machine By Mark Doty - R A I N T A X I O N L I N E Sweet Machine. mark doty. HarperFlamingo ($12). by Andrea Holland. But never metthis Fellow Attended, or alone Without a tighter breathing And zero at the Bone. http://www.raintaxi.com/online/1998summer/doty.shtml

Summer 1998 Sweet Machine Mark Doty HarperFlamingo ($12) by Andrea Holland But never met this Fellow Attended, or alone Without a tighter breathing And zero at the Bone Emily Dickinson ark Doty's poems are written out of longing for what's beautiful in this world: beautiful metal oxides making glass, beautiful turtles in their green bowl sold on Broadway, the crack addict's beautifully chalky skin. But that's not enough for Doty; while some poets settle for clever observation, what Doty sees is only half the story. What the observed do (the turtles, the addict, the glass) is beg the viewer to take another look, a better look, a look inside. His watch may be beautiful to behold, but after Doty describes its golden hands he'll want to show you the mechanics of it. And then, he'll tell you how the ticking makes him feel. Reducing Doty's work to such a formula is not meant to belittle these bright, insistent poems, but Sweet Machine is, perhaps, a little more obvious than his earlier books. Some critics have found his adjectives irritatingall that glistening, gleaming, shimmeringso it's not surprising to see two poems in this collection called "Concerning Some Recent Criticism of His Work." A little awkward in approach, they nevertheless cleverly win the reader away from the winging critic to Doty's gleaming universe, where "every sequin's an act of praise." Only the grouchiest reader could resist Sweet Machine and its love for the world, with all its tacky consumerism, its quiet fog.

67. Charlotte Observer | 03/14/2003 | For Poet Mark Doty, Description Hauls The Frei Books. Posted on Fri, Mar. 14, 2003, For poet mark doty, description haulsthe freight of a poem's insight Dannye Romine Powell Staff Writer http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/entertainment/books/5393060.htm

Click here to visit other RealCities sites Help Contact Us Site Index ... Newspaper Subscriptions Search Search the Archives A-Section Local News Cabarrus ... Carolina Living Monday, Mar 24, 2003 Books Posted on Fri, Mar. 14, 2003 For poet Mark Doty, description hauls the freight of a poem's insight Dannye Romine Powell Staff Writer You can smell and touch the things of Mark Doty's poems. The little rabbit dead in the grass. The salt-stain spot at the gym. The "queen's display/ of orchid and fern, lush heap/ of dried leaves" in the Manhattan flower shop. Doty a star of this week's CPCC Spring Literary Festival will tell you that his use of description is only a vehicle for the freight of insight. "The little rabbit dead in the grass" prompts Doty to question the essence of life. The salt-stain spot in the gym is "the sign of where we've been." "The orchid and fern" are part of "something stubborn in us/ ... that does not diminish." Doty has won the National Book Critics Circle Award and Britain's T.S. Eliot Prize. He's been a National Book Award finalist and has received a number of prestigious fellowships. He will speak at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, and read from his work at 7:30 p.m., in Pease Auditorium on the Central Piedmont Community College campus. For a schedule of literary festival events, see Page 4H. Q.

68. Charlotte Observer | 03/14/2003 | For Poet Mark Doty, Description Hauls The Frei Books, Posted on Fri, Mar. 14, 2003, For poet mark doty, description haulsthe freight of a poem's insight Dannye Romine Powell Staff Writer http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/entertainment/books/5393060.htm

Click here to visit other RealCities sites Help Contact Us Site Index ... Newspaper Subscriptions Search Search the Archives Entertainment Books Celebrities Columnists Dining ... Entertainment Monday, Mar 24, 2003 Books Posted on Fri, Mar. 14, 2003 For poet Mark Doty, description hauls the freight of a poem's insight Dannye Romine Powell Staff Writer You can smell and touch the things of Mark Doty's poems. The little rabbit dead in the grass. The salt-stain spot at the gym. The "queen's display/ of orchid and fern, lush heap/ of dried leaves" in the Manhattan flower shop. Doty a star of this week's CPCC Spring Literary Festival will tell you that his use of description is only a vehicle for the freight of insight. "The little rabbit dead in the grass" prompts Doty to question the essence of life. The salt-stain spot in the gym is "the sign of where we've been." "The orchid and fern" are part of "something stubborn in us/ ... that does not diminish." Doty has won the National Book Critics Circle Award and Britain's T.S. Eliot Prize. He's been a National Book Award finalist and has received a number of prestigious fellowships. He will speak at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, and read from his work at 7:30 p.m., in Pease Auditorium on the Central Piedmont Community College campus. For a schedule of literary festival events, see Page 4H. Q.

69. Poeticvoices.com Dec 2000 Feature -- Mark Doty by. mark doty. Date February 2000. mark doty has established himselfas one of the most courageous and eloquent poets of our time. http://www.poeticvoices.com/0012Doty.htm

by Mark Doty Turtle, Swan, and Bethlehem in Broad Daylight: Two Volumes of Poetry Retail Price: $14.95 Format: Paperback, 160pp. ISBN: 0252068424 Publisher: University of Illinois Press Pub. Date: February 2000 "Mark Doty has established himself as one of the most courageous and eloquent poets of our time. This one-volume edition brings together Doty's first two published collections of poetry. " From the Publisher "If it were mine to invent the poet to complete the century of William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens, I would create Mark Doty just as he is, a maker of big, risky, fearless poems in which ordinary human experience becomes music. " -Philip Levine Feature by: Robin Travis-Murphree Mark Doty was born in Memphis, TN in 1953. Due to his father's job as an army engineer, Doty moved a great deal and grew up in various parts of the country from Tucson, to Northern California, Southern California, Florida and Arizona. He has only one sibling, Sally, who is ten years his senior. A Publisher's Weekly article (April 15, 1996) states that Doty's ancestor, Edward Doty, arrived in America on the Mayflower in 1620 and "fought the first duel on American soil and filed the nation's first lawsuit." A 1996 article in the New Statesman assigns an Irish heritage to Doty, recording that his maternal family immigrated to the United States during the potato famine and settled in Sweetwater, TN.

70. Chanteuse -- Mark Doty and glow, my torch, my skyrocket, my city, my false, my splendid chanteuse.mark doty Excerpted from My Alexandria published 1993 http://esag.harvard.edu/falk/interests/poetry/chanteuse.html

Chanteuse Pendergast painted the Public Garden; remembered, even at a little distance, the city takes on his ravishing tones. Jots of color resolve: massed parasols above a glimmering pond, the transit of almost translucent swans. Brilliant bits jewels? slices of sugared fruit?bloom into a clutch of skirts on the bridge above the summer boaters. His city's essence: all the hues of chintzes or makeup or Italian ices, all the sheen artifice is capable of. Our city's lavish paintbox. Name the colors: light turning to rose, a suspended glow, late afternoons, in the air above the avenues, as if the houses themselves were remembering, their brick-tinted memory a warm haze above the taxis and the homebound cars. Almost the color of the glow, evenings, at the end of April, when one lamppost positioned exactly right, on Marlboro Street, would shine through the unfurled petals of a blossoming magnolia, marbling a corner mailbox, an iron gate, a tract of sidewalklight stained by the skin of flowers, the shadows of bloom. I loved that city, the two of us traversing

71. Carolyn Kizer And Mark Doty - Poetry-in-the-Round - Seton Hall Univeristy carolyn kizer and mark doty. Thursday, March 29, 700 PM. It's a metaphormakingprocess. My metaphors know more than I do they know ahead of me. . -mark doty. http://artsci.shu.edu/poetry/previous/dotykizer.html

carolyn kizer and mark doty Thursday, March 29, 7:00 PM "I wait to be haunted, as it were, by an image, [for] something I see to register on a deeper level than most experience does. A seal in the harbor, or the wreck of a fishing boat. I'll feel this tug in my memory. Then I'll begin describing it to try to capture it. In the process of describing it I begin to understand what it is about the image that's compelling. It's not enough to describe it: the image is a vehicle for something I'm trying to understand. It's a metaphor-making process. My metaphors know more than I do: they know ahead of me." -Mark Doty Mark Doty has published five books of poems and two memoirs, as well as poetry, prose, and criticism in numerous magazines and anthologies. His work has been honored with the T.S. Eliot Prize from the United Kingdom, a Whiting Writers' Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, a PEN/Martha Allbrand Nonfiction Prize, the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry, and the Lambda Literary Award. Doty has been described as "a major poetic voice in his maturity, a writer of exultant and dazzling epiphanies in everyday life which follow the pain and confusion of loss." He currently teaches at the University of Houston, and lives in Houston and in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

72. Mark Doty mark doty. The numbers are so big as to defy comprehension 2.8 million AIDSdeaths worldwide in 1999 alone, according to the World Health Organization. http://citypaper.net/articles/113000/cw.sixpick6.shtml

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73. Mark Doty - Poets Out Loud Poets mark doty is the author of four poetry collections and the memoirs Firebird andHeaven's Coast, which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. http://www.fordham.edu/english/pol/poets/mdoty.html

events news prize poets ... home Mark Doty is the author of four poetry collections and the memoirs Firebird and Heaven's Coast, which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. He is the recipient of the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and has been a finalist for the National Book Award. He has taught in Salt Lake city, Houston, and New York, and lives in Provincetown, Massachussetts. "I thought . . . 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 pol@fordham.edu . Last updated February 26, 2002.

74. Fierce Attention, Mark Doty Turns His Eye To Art, By Brian Hopkins (03/15/01) BOOKS-. FIERCE ATTENTION mark doty Turns His Eye to Art by Brian Hopkins.STILL LIFE WITH OYSTERS AND LEMON by mark doty (Beacon Press) $20. http://www.thestranger.com/2001-03-15/books.html

Vol 10 No. 26, Mar 15 - Mar 21 2001 Enter search words: -BOOKS- FIERCE ATTENTION Mark Doty Turns His Eye to Art by Brian Hopkins STILL LIFE WITH OYSTERS AND LEMON by Mark Doty (Beacon Press) $20 In the extended essay Still Life with Oysters and Lemon , poet Mark Doty's sumptuous writing finds its artistic analogue in Dutch still life paintings of the late 1600s. Both lavish attention on the everyday objects often overlooked, calling us to new vision. The style of still life was distilled to paintings smaller than a sheet of notebook paper, focused on small collections of everyday items caught in time's decay: Beert's shimmering oysters and Coorte's delicate asparagus rendered in painstaking detail. Doty's poetry finds similar resonance: Careful consideration of "A Green Crab's Shell" leads to something like a soul, and fog is a pervasive metaphor for language and other imprecisions. Doty's latest work is inspired by his love of these paintings. Still Life with Oysters and Lemons is a deft commixture of art history, memoir

75. Mark Doty - Photography http://www.markdoty.com/

76. 'Still Life With Oysters And Lemon' By Mark Doty Still Life with Oysters and Lemon' by mark doty. Poets take chances and darereaders to come along for the ride. By mark doty. Beacon Press $18.00. http://www.post-gazette.com/books/reviews/20010708review802.asp

77. Bookinfo Small Press. Other Useful Links. ABA. ALA. BISG. Literary ListServ. mark doty.BookWire has information on the following mark doty titles Atlantis. Dog Stories. http://www.bookwire.com/bookwire/perlscript/author.pl?1342

78. Poets In MA: Poems By Mark Doty ~ My salt marsh mine, Icall it, because these day-hammered fields of dazzled horizontals......Poems by mark doty. ATLANTIS ~ http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~poetsma/md.html

Poems by Mark Doty ATLANTIS ~ Description ~ My salt marsh -mine, I call it, because these day-hammered fields of dazzled horizontals undulate, summers, inside me and out- how can I say what it is? Sea lavender shivers over the tidewater steel. A million minnows ally with their million shadows (lucky we'll never need to know whose is whose). The bud of storm loosens: watered paint poured dark blue onto the edge of the page. Haloed grasses, gilt shadow-edged body of dune I could go on like this. I love the language of the day's ten thousand aspects, the creases and flecks in the map, these brillant gouaches. Long Point Light Long Pont's apparitional this warm spring morning, the strand a blur of sandy light, and the square white of the lighthouse-separated from us by the bay's ultramarine as if it were nowhere we could ever go-gleams like a tower's ghost, hazing into the rinsed blue of March, our last outpost in the huge indetermination of sea. It seems cheerful enough, in the strengthening sunlight

79. Mark Doty - The Academy Of American Poets Find a Poem mark doty. Add to a Notebook Souls on Ice. By mark doty.In the Stop 'n Shop in Orleans, Massachusetts, I was struck http://www.onlinepoetryclassroom.org/poems/prose.cfm?prmID=1930

80. Mark Doty's "Letter To Walt Whitman": Walt Whitman mark doty's Letter to Walt Whitman Walt Whitman Campfire If ye would like tomoderate the Walt Whitman Campfire, please drop becket@jollyroger.com a line. http://killdevilhill.com/whitmanchat/shakespearew/121.html

Mark Doty's "Letter to Walt Whitman": Walt Whitman Campfire If ye would like to moderate the Walt Whitman Campfire, please drop becket@jollyroger.com a line. Walt Whitman & Mark Doty's "Letter to Walt Whitman" Free Discussion Forum Open Source CMS Renaissance Postnuke Hosting Gallery Hosting ... The World's Largest Literary Cafe: Carolinanavy.com Posted by Nit Whit on October 20, 192002 at 17:53:17: In his most recent book, SOURCE, poet Mark Doty considers Whitman's place in contemporary America. The poem is at times humerous, and at other times reflective written in the lyrical and conversational style typical in Doty's previous work. Doty enters his story by visiting Whitman's home. "Your house still stands," he tells his predecessor, noting that it's now "dwarfed by the prison / glowering across the street." Such contrasts abound throughout the poem: "We loved the evidence of you / fired by that filtering amber, / even while the swoops of car alarms / decibeled outside..." Interrupted by Jehovah's Witnesses as he writes, Doty comes to a realization that "Our poets fear / the didactic voice, the sweeping claim; we let / the televangelists and door-to-door / preachers talk hope and apocalypse / while we tend more private gardens."

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