Sweet Machine

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.

Author: Mark Doty
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 03/04/1998
Pages: 132
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 9.20h x 5.99w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780060952563
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Nominee
Award: Boston Book Review - Nominee
Award: ALA Notable Books - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/26/1998 pg. 87
Library Journal 03/15/1998 pg. 66

About the Author
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.