School of the Arts : Poems

School of the Arts
Author(s): Mark Doty

With School of the Arts, Mark Doty's darkly graceful seventh collection, the poet reinvents his own voice at midlife, finding his way through a troubled passage. At once witty and disconsolate -- formally inventive, acutely attentive, insistently alive -- this is a book of fierce vulnerability that explores the ways in which we are educated by the implacable powers of time and desire in a world that constantly renews itself.

Review(s):
“Vivid, inviting, descriptive verse.”
“Achieve[s] a quiet grandeur with a voice marked by the clarity and thoughtful lyricism that distinguished his earlier collections.”
“Memorable, essential, big hearted, joyous in music ... this is the finest book of poems by one of our finest poets.”



ISBN:  9780060752460