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    Atlantis: Poems by

    By Mark Doty

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061967863
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    Atlantis: Poems by
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    Mark Doty

    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.

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    • 4/5
      3.5 i love poetry, it is often soothing to me, makes me look at things in different ways. This book came in my Strand book box, and it was a poet of which I had never heard. It highlights the beauty of the natural world, some striking images are invoked. It is also about death, death due to AIDS, but also the natural death due to their natural cycle in nature. Sunflowers, green crabs and even mackerel. It is hard to describe poetry without including a sample, unless it is a widely known poet. Unfortunately, however, all the poems are too lengthy, and I would be thing way to long. So you'll have to take my word for it, if you enjoy poetry give this one a chance.
    • 4/5
      Mark Doty's poetry combines the aesthetics and eye of a painter with the talent of a writer. His poems are canvases with multi-hued strokes of evocative and intricate imagery. While this is reminiscent of the Romantics, the poems differ in the choice and treatment of subjects. One of the repetitive imageries is related to ships and harbours.

      One of the stars goes out of this review because of the length of each poems - they are so long and filled with so many images that many a times I found myself forgetting where the poem started off and the relation between the beginning, the middle and the ending.
    • 4/5
      A collections of poems using luminous descriptions of the physical world, both natural and manmade, to illuminate the longings of life -- a life attempting to come to terms with death. Haunting and inspiring.