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Mark Doty

Mark Doty is the author of eight poetry collections including,  Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008 and My Alexandria, which won the 1995 T. S. Elliot Prize. He is writing a prose volume on Walt Whitman, sex, death and the body. He lives in New York City and teaches at Rutgers University.

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PoetryPoetry | The Online Edition
Poetry | The Online Edition

Apparition

Mark Doty

‘an orange plastic basket of compost / down from the top of the garden – sweet dark, / fibrous rot, promising’

FictionFiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition

Granta Celebrates Its 2012 Best American Series Authors

Various Contributors

Granta Celebrates Its 2012 Best American Series Authors 29 October, 7 p.m., Word Bookstore ,...

In ConversationIn Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition

Podcast: Will Self & Mark Doty

Mark Doty & Will Self

[Will Self and Mark Doty's] ‘discussion with Granta publisher Sigrid Rausing about blood, the surprising relationship between Bram Stoker and Walt Whitman and the nature of addiction.’

Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition padlock
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition padlock

Insatiable

Mark Doty

‘Behind every man I want to kiss lies that original desire, which it is my nature and my fate to displace.’

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Fiction | The Online Edition padlock

The Unwriteable

Mark Doty

‘When I was seventeen, a freshman in college living in my parents’ house, I met Ruth at a poetry reading.’

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