Deep Lane

Mark Doty

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Jonathan Cape Ltd
15 April 2015

Poetry by individual poets

A frank and fearless new collection from the winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize

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

morning

a 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.

By: Mark Doty
Imprint: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 96g
ISBN: 9780224099837
ISBN 10: 0224099833
Pages: 80
Publication Date: 15 April 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mark Doty is the author of more than ten volumes of poetry and three memoirs. His many honours include the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Whiting Writers' Award, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award, and, in the UK, the T. S. Eliot Prize. He is a professor at Rutgers University and lives in New York City.

Reviews for Deep Lane

Deep Lane, [Doty’s] best work yet, is astute, contemplative and deeply moving. * Washington Post * Mark Doty’s ninth collection displays his customary gift for emphatic observation, collapsing the distance between poet and subject to establish an observance of both secular and sexual mysteries. -- W N Herbert * Literary Review * Full of urban romanticism, with images of delving and desire and the search for “the wild unsayable”, mixed in with wonderings about his parents. -- John Walsh * Independent * The collection is permeated with a sense of finding depth, travelling downward and into roots. -- Charlotte Runcie * Daily Telegraph *