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Title: DEEP LANE
By: Mark Doty
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0224099833
ISBN 13: 9780224099837
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Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE CHILDREN'S PUBLISHERS UK
Pub. date: 2 April, 2015
Pages: 80
Description: `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 morninga new line running across the wet grass, near the surface, like a vein.
Synopsis: 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'. 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. `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 morninga new line running across the wet grass, near the surface, like a vein. Don'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. But these poems seek repair, finally, through the possibilities that sustain the speaker above ground: gardens and animals; the pleasure of seeing; the world tuned by the word. Time and again, an image of immolation and sacrifice is undercut by the fierce fortitude of nature: nature that is not just a solace but a potent antidote and cure. Ranging from agony to rapture, from great depths to hard-won heights, these are poems of grace and nobility.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Prizes: Short-listed for TS Eliot Prize 2016 (UK)
Returns: Returnable
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