Sweet Machine: Poems

Doty, Mark

ISBN 10: 0060952563 / ISBN 13: 9780060952563

Published by Harper Flamingo, 1998

About this Item

Very large, sturdy, thinner softcover, glossy wrappers with color-illustration of flower on front, 117 pages of poetry plus a brief biographical note with photo of poet. Very light wear to spine bottom left edge and bottom back tip. Near Very Fine.

Seller Inventory # 56225

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sweet Machine: Poems
• Publisher: Harper Flamingo
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060952563
• ISBN 13: 9780060952563
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

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 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.

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.