Sweet machine
Subtitle: poems
By: Mark Doty.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperFlamingo
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 117
Description: Mark Doty's last two award-winning collections of poetry, as well as his acclaimed memoir Heaven's Coast, used the devastation of AIDS as a lens through which to consider questions of loss, love, and identity. The poems in his new collection, Sweet Machine, see the world from a new, hard-won perspective: a coming back to life, after so much death, a way of seeing the body's "sweet machine" not simply as a time bomb, but also as a vibrant, sensual, living thing.