monday poem #63: Mark Doty, "The Embrace"

[heresluck]

There is still no other Mark Doty poetry collection that I love as much as My Alexandria, but Sweet Machine comes closest.

Doty writes about grief, and about joy, better than almost any other writer I can think of. Sweet Machine, like most of his work, deals with both.

Comments

[renenet]

God, that's so cleanly beautiful. And heartbreaking.

[heresluck]

Isn't it? It makes me want to re-read Heaven's Coast. Again.

[heresluck]

I agree that it captures something about the dream state. It's the simplicity and the matter-of-factness that just... gets me.

[oracne]

Thanks.

[heresluck]

Glad you liked.