Product Description: “His best work yet . . . astute, contemplative, and deeply moving.” ―Washington PostMark Doty’s poetry has long been celebrated for its risk and candor, an ability to find transcendent beauty even in the mundane and grievous, an unflinching eye that―as Philip Levine says―“looks away from nothing...read more

A series of eloquent meditations on the essential themes: mortality and life, beauty and loss. The collection is haunted by the spectre of AIDs.

Product Description: Artists Joey Kirkpatrick and Flora C. Mace began collaborating at Pilchuck Glass School in 1979 and went on to become pioneers of style and technique in the art glass world. The innovation, scale, and complexity of their work firmly established their place alongside other major glass artists, and their work is included in many museum collections around the world...read more

Product Description: Pregnant and single, Isobel Dorland yearns for a real family life. But though she's head over heels in love with the father of her child, she knows that he's in no position to offer her marriage.Resolving that she must start anew, Belle leaves her hometown quietly—without telling Jared where she's going—or that she's carrying his baby...read more

Product Description: The powerful and influential last poems of an unsung master, now again available, with a new introduction by National Book Award winner Mark DotyJames L. White's The Salt Ecstasies―originally published in 1982, shortly after White's untimely death―has earned a reputation for its artful and explicit expression of love and desire...read more

This is a collection of poems, in which the poet claims the mythical lost island as his own. But the island recedes, just as the lives of those he loves continue to be extinguished by the devastation of AIDS.

A provocative new collection of poems, examining the paradox of selfhood, provides an intricate self-portrait of the author that follows his vivid search for meaning, argues the fact of limit, and details the drams of perception. Reprint.

A collection of lyrical and joyful poems explores the 'sweet machine' of the body as a vibrant, sensual, living thing

Why do dogs speak so profoundly to our inner lives? When poet Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he finds himself bringing home Beau, a large golden retriever, malnourished and in need of loving care. Beau joins Arden, the black retriever, to complete their family. As Beau bounds back into life, the two dogs become Doty's intimate companions, his solace, and eventually the very life force that keeps him from abandoning all hope during the darkest days. Their tenacity, loyalty, and love inspire him when all else fails. This is a moving and intimate memoir interwoven with profound reflections on our feelings for animals and the lessons they teach us about life, love, and loss. Doty writes about the heart-wrenching vulnerability of dogs, the positive energy and joy they bring, and the gift they bear us of unconditional love.--From publisher description.A memoir of the author's relationship with a pair of beloved canine companions is a tribute to their irrepressible personalities, their life-changing impact on the author and his family, and their role in how the author came to understand loss and grief.

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. Reprint.

A collection of incisive essays by twenty writers--including Mark Doty, Barbara Hurd, Andrea Barrett, Elizabeth McCracken, Terry Tempest Williams, Bernard Cooper, and other notable authors--radically redefines the definition of home, from a Brooklyn apartment to a full-body cast. Original. (view table of contents)