Mark Doty
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Mark Doty
- Born: 1953
- Birthplace: Maryville, TN
Mark Doty is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, a National Book Award finalist, and the first American to win the T.S. Eliot Prize, for his poetry collection, My Alexandria, in 1993. Doty, who is gay, has written about his struggle with coming to terms with his sexual identity, and with the impact on AIDS on the gay community. He has written five other books of poems, including Source (2002), Sweet Machine (1998), Atlantis (1995) – which received the Ambassador Book Award, the Bingham Poetry Prize, and a Lambda Literary Award – Bethlehem in Broad Daylight (1991), and Turtle, Swan (1987). He won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction for Heaven's Coast: A Memoir (1996), and also wrote an autobiography, Firebird (1999).
Most Famous Works
- Turtle, Swan (1987)
- My Alexandria (1993)
- Firebird (1999)
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Works by Mark Doty
(b. 1953)
| 1987 | Turtle, Swan. Doty's first collection is praised by one reviewer for turning gay experience into "an example of how we live, how we suffer and transcend suffering." It would be followed by a similarly acclaimed second collection, Bethlehem in Broad Daylight, in 1991. |
| 1993 | My Alexandra. Doty becomes the first American to win the prestigious T. S. Eliot Prize, as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award, for this collection offering various responses to the AIDS crisis. Atlantis (1995) and Sweet Machine (1998) would follow. |
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Mark Doty
Mark Doty (born August 10, 1953) is an American poet and memoirist.
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Biography
He was born in Maryville, Tennessee, earned his Bachelor of Arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard College in Vermont.
In 1989, his partner Wally Roberts tested positive for HIV,[1] which drastically changed Doty's writing. Roberts's death in 1994 inspired Doty to write Atlantis. Heaven's Coast: A Memoir also deals with this subject. In 1995, he was the first American poet to win the £10,000 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, for his book My Alexandria. The book was also a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the 1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Doty also received a 1994 Whiting Writers' Award.
He has written twelve books of poetry and three memoirs. Firebird told the story of his childhood in the American South and in Arizona. Dog Years was a memoir of the lives of two of his dogs who Doty had while dealing with the death of his partner and the devastation of 9-11. Louise Erdrich praised the book as being "about dogs, that is to say, about everything we cannot talk about... the 'unsayable' about our relationships with animals, and about unspeakable times of loss, Dog Years is not a dark book. It is illuminated from within by gorgeous wonder." Dog Years is the winner of the 2008 American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award. His last book of poetry Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems won the 2008 National Book Award for Poetry.[2]
He lives in New York City and Fire Island, New York. He was the John and Rebecca Moores Professor in the graduate program at The University of Houston Creative Writing Program. He has also participated in The Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers and was on the faculty of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in August 2006. He is the inaugural judge of the White Crane/James White Poetry Prize for Excellence in Gay Men's Poetry.
He now teaches at Rutgers University. His husband since 1995 is the writer Paul Lisicky.
Works
Poetry
- 1987: Turtle, Swan, Boston: David R. Godine (reissued, University of Illinois Press, 1999)[3]
- 1991: Bethlehem in Broad Daylight, Boston: David R. Godine (reissued, University of Illinois Press, 1999)[3]
- 1993: My Alexandria, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press (chosen for the National Poetry Series by Philip Levine); London: Jonathan Cape, 1995[3]
- 1995: Atlantis, New York: HarperCollins; London: Jonathan Cape, 1996[3]
- 1998: Sweet Machine, New York, HarperFlamingo; London: Jonathan Cape, 1998[3]
- 2001: Source, New York: HarperCollins; London: Jonathan Cape, 2002[3]
- 2005: School of the Arts, New York: HarperCollins; London: Jonathan Cape, 2005[3]
- 2008: Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, New York, HarperCollins[3] —winner of the National Book Award[2]
- 2008: Theories and Apparitions, London: Jonathan Cape[3]
Prose
- 1996: Heaven's Coast (memoir), New York: HarperCollins; London: Jonathan Cape, 1996 (paperback); Stockholm: Kentaur[3]
- 1999: Firebird: A Memoir, New York: HarperCollins; London: Jonathan Cape, 2000[3]
- 2001: Still Life with Oysters and Lemon, Boston: Beacon Press[3]
- 2007: Dog Years, New York: HarperCollins; London: Jonathan Cape, 2007; also published in Brazil, Italy and France[3]
- 2010: The Art of Description, St. Paul: Graywolf Books[3]
Limited and special editions
- 1997: Favrile, New York: Dim Gray Bar Press[3]
- 1998: An Island Sheaf, New York: Dim Gray Bar Press[3]
- 2000: Murano, Los Angeles; The J. Paul Getty Museum[3]
- 2003: Seeing Venice: Bellotto’s Grand Canal, The J. Paul Getty Museum[3]
- 2004: Fire to Fire, Sutton Hoo Press[3]
Edited
- 2003: Open House: Writers Redefine Home, St. Paul: Graywolf Books[3]
Audiotapes
- 1996: My Alexandria, University of Illinois Press[3]
Videotapes
- 1998: Poetry Heaven, a three-part video series, The Dodge Foundation, New Jersey[3]
- 1999: Mark Doty: Readings & Conversations, Lannan Literary Videos, Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles[3]
- 1999: "Fooling with Words", Bill Moyers PBS special, September[3]
References
- ^ Toibin, Colm (2002), Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature, Simon and Schuster, p. 241, ISBN 0-7432-4467-2
- ^ a b "National Book Awards – 2008". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-04-08.
(With acceptance speech, interview, and other material; and essay by Kiki Petrosino from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) - ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Web page titled "Mark Doty Books" at Mark Doty website, accessed May 5, 2008
External links
- Official Site
- Mark Doty's MySpace
- Audio: Mark Doty at the Key West Literary Seminar, 2008: A Reading
- Audio: Mark Doty at the Key West Literary Seminar, 2008: Keynote Address
- Mark Doty performing "Pipistrelle" on the Indiefeed Performance Poetry Podcast
- Mark Doty's Poets.org bio
- Mark Doty's University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign bio
- Modern American Poetry
- Academy of American Poets
- 'Something Understood', review of The Art of Description in The Oxonian Review
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