School of the Arts: Poems - Hardcover

Doty, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060752459 ISBN 13: 9780060752453

Verlag: Harper, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

The darkly graceful poems in Mark Doty's seventh collection explore the ways in which we are educated by the implacable powers of time and desire. The world constantly renews itself, and the new brings both possibility and erasure. Given the limits of our own bodies, how are we to live within the inevitability of despair?

This is the plainest of Doty's books, its language stripped and humbled. But whatever depths are sounded in these poems, their humane and open music sustains. Art itself instructs us. Lucian Freud's startling renditions of human skin, Virginia Woolf's ecstatic depiction of consciousness, Caravaggio's only-too-real people elevated to difficult glory -- all turn the light of human intelligence upon "the night of time."

Formally inventive, warm, at once witty and disconsolate, School of the Arts represents a poet reinventing his own voice at midlife, finding a way through a troubled passage. Acutely attentive, insistently alive, this is a book of "fierce vulnerability."

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Reseña del editor

A collection of dark and lyrical poetic works by the award-winning author of My Alexandria focuses on the ways in which humans are educated by time and desire, in a volume that ruminates on how works of art and literature reflect an inevitability of despair.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Harper
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0060752459
• ISBN 13: 9780060752453
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
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