Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Great Regulars: [Mark] Doty is terrifically precise as he

inspects time's wreckage. The right words, these poems assert, have the power to resurrect the past and give it meaning. Like C.P. Cavafy and James Schuyler, two poets whose work looms large here, Doty is a sensualist with a deceptively casual register.

from John Freeman: The Plain Dealer: Mark Doty makes the familiar exotic in 'Fire to Fire' poems

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