Mark Doty

Dog Years (2007)

“Doty, Mark: Dog Years”HarperCollins Publishing, March 2007I am one to favor stories about animals. I have always been an avid animal lover, and I enjoy reading stories about things that I can associate myself with. Stories about pets are definitely stories that I can easily lose myself in and, f...

Heaven's Coast: A Memoir (1997)

I just bought Mark Doty's latest collection of poems today, Fire to Fire. So far it's pretty great, most notably for its shimmering depictions of natural phenomena ranging from a bat flying in rural Britain to the ocean shores of Provincetown. Doty's gift for lyrical description is so impressiv...

Mosquito (2006)