| Atlantis: Poems by Contributor(s): Doty, Mark (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 0060951060 ISBN-13: 9780060951061 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $16.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1995 Annotation: In his latest collection, Atlantis, Doty claims the mythical lost island as his own: a fading paradise whose memory he must keep alive at the same time that he is forced to renounce its hold on him. Atlantis recedes, just as the lives of those Doty loves continue to be extinguished by the devastation of AIDS. Set in the harbor village of Provincetown, whose charming, cluttered landscape Doty brings to life, the collection chronicles the illness and death of Doty's beloved partner, as well as many others whose worlds have been both ravaged and broadened by this disease. Doty's struggle is to reconcile with, and even to celebrate, the evanescence of our earthly connections - to those we love, to the shifting physical landscape, even to our strongest feelings - and to understand how we can love more at the very moment that we must consent to let go. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Lgbt - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 96185822 |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 6.1" W x 9.17" (0.40 lbs) 112 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The poignant, accomplished new collection of poetry from the author of My Alexandria--1993 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Los Angeles Times Book Award, 1993 National Book Award Finalist. |
Contributor Bio(s): Doty, Mark: - Mark Doty's books of poetry and nonfiction prose have been honored with numerous distinctions, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and, in the United Kingdom, the T. S. Eliot Prize. In 2008, he won the National Book Award for Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems. He is a professor at the University of Houston, and he lives in New York City. |