Sweet Machine
Mark Doty''s last two award-winning collections of poetry, as well as his acclaimed memoir Heaven''s Coast, used the devastation of AIDS as a lens through which to consider questions of loss, love and identity. The poems in Sweet Machine see the world from a new, hard-won perspective: A coming back to life, after so much death, a way of seeing the body''s "sweet machine" not simply as a time bomb,...
Mark Doty''s last two award-winning collections of poetry, as well as his acclaimed memoir Heaven''s Coast, used the devastation of AIDS as a lens through which to consider questions of loss, love and identity. The poems in Sweet Machine see the world from a new, hard-won perspective: A coming back to life, after so much death, a way of seeing the body''s "sweet machine" not simply as a time bomb,...
