num_pages: 70
description: From Mark Doty, one of our finest poets, a delicate and sensual literary essay. Part memoir, part art history, part meditation, this hybrid volume uses the great Dutch still life paintings of the seventeenth century as a departure point for an examination of questions about our relationships with things, how we invest them with human store, how they hold feeling and hope and history within them.
language: English
title: Still Life with Oysters and Lemon
titlecomplete: Still Life with Oysters and Lemon
genres: Criticism, Biography, Memoir, Essays, Philosophy, Art History, Poetry, Writing, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 1807
publisher: Beacon Press