Mark Doty is a poet of the salt marsh and the City, the ruins and the intimate, travel and home. His poetic presence is generosity married to a tempered vision and an elegant luminosity. He frequently calls on, and resonates, the essence of C.P. Cavafy, and has written on Walt Whitman. Doty’s ouevre includes nine volumes of poetry, five books of prose, and five special editions that include a single-poem ekphrastic book,
Murano:The Island of Glass, and
Seeing Venice: Belotto’s Grand Canalpublished in 2000 and 2003 by the J. Paul Getty Museum. He edited the collection of essays,
Open House: Writers Redefine Home,published in 2003 by Graywolf Press.
His poetry has appeared in
The Atlantic Monthly, The London Review of Books,and
The New Yorkerand
Atlantis(1995) received the Bingham…
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