Sweet Machine
In a departure from his previous focus on the devastation of AIDS, bestselling poet Mark Doty explores the world from a new and hard-won perspective. Lyrically beautiful and exuberant, this collection of poems marks a coming back to life, a way of visualizing the body--the "sweet machine"--as a...
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In a departure from his previous focus on the devastation of AIDS, bestselling poet Mark Doty explores the world from a new and hard-won perspective. Lyrically beautiful and exuberant, this collection of poems marks a coming back to life, a way of visualizing the body--the "sweet machine"--as a vibrant, sensual, and living thing.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060952563 (0060952563)
Publish date: March 4th 1998
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 132
Edition language: English
I feel utterly unqualified to review a book of poems. I read them too fast, I rarely stop and savour them. I mean to, but then I speed up, and catch myself, and have to go back. It's not that I don't like poetry - I do. It's just that I'm not good at reading it.But I enjoyed this, although I didn't ...