HEAVEN'S COAST is an anatomy of loss: tender, heartbreaking, consoling and, ultimately, incredibly moving. Beginning with the first onset of AIDS and its lengthening shadow over a blissful relationship, the book follows the shifting patterns between two loves as the illness takes hold - the change in them and the change in the way they perceive the world, through the lens of grief. Doty examines the nature of AIDS as opposed to other illnesses, the responses of society, the frustration of medical care and the exhausting - and occasionally uplifting - burden of caring for the dying at home.

Heaven's Coast

Politics & Social Sciences

Mark Doty

Anthropology

Vintage

Sweet Machine (Cape Poetry)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

JONATHAN CAPE.

When I say I hate time, Paul says/how else could we find depth/of character, or grow souls?' The darkly graceful poems in Mark Doty's seventh collection explore the ways in which we are educated by the implacable powers of time and desire. The world constantly renews itself, and the new brings both possibility and erasure. Given the limits of our own bodies, how are we to live within the inevitability of despair? This is the plainest of Doty's books, its language stripped and humbled. But whatever depths are sounded in these poems, their humane and open music sustains. Art itself instructs us. Lucian Freud's startling renditions of human skin, Virginia Woolf's ecstatic depiction of consciousness, Caravaggio's only too real people elevated to difficult glory - all turn the light of human intelligence upon 'the night of time'. Formally inventive, warm, at once witty and disconsolate, School of the Arts represents a poet reinventing his own voice at midlife, finding a way through a troubled passage. Acutely attentive, insistently alive, this is a book of 'fierce vulnerability'.

School of the Arts

History & Criticism

<p>Firebird presents us with a heroic little boy who has quite enough worries without discovering that his dawning sexuality is the Wrong One</p>

Firebird

Biographies & Memoirs

Regional U.S.

Harper

So to Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art

Marie Howe

Sharon Mehdi

George Mason University

Dog Years: A Memoir

Vintage Classics

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