ARGONAUT BOOKS

Mark Doty's poetry has long been celebrated for its risk and candour, an ability to find transcendent beauty even in the mundane and grievous, an unflinching eye that - as Philip Levine says - 'looks away from nothing'. In the poems of 'Deep Lane' the stakes are higher: there is more to lose than ever before, and there is more for us to gain. Reviews Deep Lane, [Doty's] best work yet, is astute, contemplative and deeply moving.Washington PostMark Doty's ninth collection displays his customary gift for emphatic observation, collapsing the distance between poet and subject to ...Read More