School of the Arts: Poems

Distinguished Writer Mark Doty

ISBN 10: 0060752467 / ISBN 13: 9780060752460

Published by HarperCollins Publishers Inc, 2006

About this Item

With School of the Arts, Mark Doty's darkly graceful seventh collection, the poet reinvents his own voice at midlife, finding his way through a troubled passage. At once witty and disconsolate -- formally inventive, acutely attentive, insistently alive -- this is a book of fierce vulnerability that explores the ways in which we are educated by the implacable powers of time and desire in a world that constantly renews itself.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: School of the Arts: Poems
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060752467
• ISBN 13: 9780060752460
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

With School of the Arts, Mark Doty's darkly graceful seventh collection, the poet reinvents his own voice at midlife, finding his way through a troubled passage. At once witty and disconsolate -- formally inventive, acutely attentive, insistently alive -- this is a book of fierce vulnerability that explores the ways in which we are educated by the implacable powers of time and desire in a world that constantly renews itself.

About the Author

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.