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 Mark Doty, poetry
Among his many awards are two NEA fellowships, Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, a Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Award, and the Witter Byner Prize. As the award citation for the last of these noted, "Mark Doty's poems extend the range of the American lyric." Doty teaches at Rutgers University, and is a frequent guest at Columbia University, Hunter College, and NYU. He lives in Houston and in New York City.
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“With his clarity of vision and great heart, Doty stands among us an emblematic and shining presence.” —Stanley Kunitz
“A new book of poems—or of anything—by Mark Doty is good news in a dark time. The precision, daring, scope, elegance of his compassion and of the language in which he embodies it are a reassuring pleasure.” —W. S. Merwin
“If it were mine to invent the poet to complete the century of William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens, I would create Mark Doty just as he is, a maker of big, risky, fearless poems in which ordinary human experience becomes music.” —Philip Levine |
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