School of the arts : poems / Mark Doty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doty, Mark.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

109 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : HarperCollins, [2005]

Summary:

With "School of the Arts," Mark Doty's darkly graceful seventh collection, the poet reinvents his own voice at midlife, finding his way through a troubled passage. At once witty and disconsolate -- formally inventive, acutely attentive, insistently alive -- this is a book of fierce vulnerability that explores the ways in which we are educated by the implacable powers of time and desire in a world that constantly renews itself.

Contents:

Heaven for Helen 1

Flit 3

Heaven for Stanley 7

Ultrasound 8

The Hours 12

(fragment) 17

Notebook/To Lucian Freud/On the Veil 18

In the Same Space 28

Shahid's Couplet 29

Oncoming Train 30

Heaven for Paul 31

To Garcia Lorca 36

In Their Flight 39

Letter to God 42

Signal 45

Now You're an Animal 47

The Valut 50

1 The Bootblack 51

2 Double Embrace 53

3 To Caravaggio 57

4 Hood 58

5 The Acknowledgment 60

6 The Harness 62

7 The Blessing 63

Late Flight 65

Fire to Fire 67

Meditation: "The Night of Time" 72

The Stairs 76

The Art Auction 78

The Pink Poppy 83

Heaven for Beau 88

Time and the Town 91

School of the Arts 93

Heaven for Arden 103.

ISBN:

0060752459

0060752467

OCLC:

54931664