Author : Mark Doty
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061755028
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)
Book Synopsis Sweet Machine by : Mark Doty
Download or read book Sweet Machine written by Mark Doty and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.