![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 'Pure appetite,' he writes ironically early in the collection, 'I wouldn't know anything about that.' And the following poem answers: Down there the little star-nosed engine of desire at work all night, secretive: in the morning a new line running across the wet grass, near the surface, like a vein.ĭon't you wish the road of excess led to the palace of wisdom, wouldn't that be nice? Deep Lane is a book of descents: into the earth beneath the garden, into the dark substrata of a life. In the poems of Deep Lane the stakes are higher: there is more to lose than ever before, and there is more for us to gain. Mark Doty's poetry has long been celebrated for its risk and candour, an ability to find transcendent beauty even in the mundane and grievous, an unflinching eye that - as Philip Levine says - 'looks away from nothing'. INGLÉS / Literatura / Poesía, teatro y cuentos populares / Poesía inglesa contemporánea /. ![]()
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