‘Doty has never eschewed beauty. Indeed, beauty, its unlikely, often unexpected, yet constant recurrence and its elusive fleetingness, is central.’ Reginald Shepherd.

Mark Doty is an American poet and memoirist. His collection My Alexandria won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize. Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems was awarded the National Book Award for Poetry. His memoire Dog Years was a New York Times best-seller. He served as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2011 to 2016.

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