Mark Doty | Mark Doty
Nov.04.2011
The following interview has just been posted on the site of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, a relatively new organization most famous for its annual "The Count," which simply tallies the ratio of men and women writers appearing in the pages of a large range of publications. The facts speak for...
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Oct.04.2010
We were talking about the intersection of information and atmosphere in the short stories of the Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat. What kind of consciousness and expectation does the reader bring to stories “about” Haiti? The challenge for Danticat is to subvert what we thought we...
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Sep.19.2010
Click for AmazonI completely enjoyed Mark Doty's The Art of Description: World into Words. It's lucid, has great in-depth but comprehensible essays, and offers outstanding examples throughout. Many pearls of wisdom scattered throughout. Bring a pen as you'll want to underline and mark up this book...
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Mar.01.2010
Sundering. Vessel. Decal-ed plexiglass. Mark Doty read last night for Seattle's amazing poetry program coordinated by our own Rebecca Hoogs and it was the best reading of the season. Maybe the best poetry reading of the decade! It is a rare poet that can entertain and educate, charm and come...
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Jan.03.2010
I suppose my interest in autobiography began in Cambridge, MA, following a car accident in 1968, in which I was run over and then woke in the backseat of someone’s MG bleeding and unable to remember anything.
Nothing like losing your memory for a couple days to stimulate an interest in...
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Nov.03.2008
Evanescene. Doty writes movingly, beyond movingly... about the death of his partner, Wally, from AIDS. "How can you hide, wrote Heraclitus, from what never goes away? Death is always present..."
"The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive;...
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Nov.02.2008
I'm not exactly sure what I was expecting in picking up a copy of Mark Doty's DOG YEARS. I'm writing about dogs, writing in the voice of dogs, Shelby (my daughter's dog) in particular. I liked the cover, warm, welcoming image of a golden retriever. And then page 1, "No dog ever said a word,...
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