Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780252063176ISBN:0252063171
Description: Near Fine. Approx. 5 1/2" x 8" Tall. 91 pages. Back cover corner creased otherwise fine. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr
Date Published: 1993-06-01
ISBN-13:9780252063176ISBN:0252063171
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780252063176ISBN:0252063171
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Description: Good. 1995-Hardcover-Inscribed. ---Used-Good-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: VINTAGE Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780224041287ISBN:0224041282
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 80 pages. (80 pages) a series of eloquent meditations on the essential themes: mortality and life, beauty and loss. the collection is haunted by the spectre of aids. (Paperback) read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780252063176ISBN:0252063171
Description: Fine. First pb printing. simultaneous w/hardcover. National Book Critics Circle Award. Unread, as new. Doty was a National Book Award winner in 2008. 89 pp. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780252063176ISBN:0252063171
Description: Fine. No Dust Jacketa as Issued. Soft-cover Edition. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed Inscribed and dated by the author on the title page. A very fine copy of this award winning book of poetry. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Champaign, University of Illinois Press
Date Published: 1993
Description: First edition thus of this the hardcover edition of his National Book Critic Circle award winning collection of poems. A very fine copy in very fine jacket. Signed and inscribed by Doty to Rolland Comstock on the title page. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780252063176ISBN:0252063171
Description: Good. Cover and pages may have some wear or writing. Binding is tight. We ship daily Monday-Friday. Delivery Confirmation included on all domestic orders. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780252063176ISBN:0252063171
Description: Very Good. First printing. Cover has edge wear, minor creases, minor scratches, small bent/rubbed cover/page corners, rubbed spine. No writing. Very good. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780224041287ISBN:0224041282
Description: New. A series of eloquent meditations on the essential themes: mortality and life, beauty and loss. The collection is haunted by the spectre of AIDs. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780224041287ISBN:0224041282
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Binding: Wraps
Publisher: University of Illinois, Urbana and Chicago
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780252063176ISBN:0252063171
Description: Very Good+ Thin 8vo. 89 pp. Front cover illustrated with black and white photograph. Light rubbing to spine foot, bottom cover edges and bottom corners. Light crease vertically to front cover. Interior clean aside from glue action to front hinge. Binding tight. Spine rolled back slightly. National Poetry Series Selected by Philip Levine. "I'm thinking/ of the lily-flowered kind/ on slim spines, the ones/ that might as well be flames, / just two slight wings that will/ blaze into the future. " read more
"The poems in this collection were not particularly dense, with a couple of passes through each one I felt like I grasped the key metaphors and messages. Doty teases out the metaphors from his experiences and tries to write them directly into his poems. I think his poetry succeeds because of these keen observations and beautiful writing, not due to some ability to pack haystacks of meaning into a mere needle's worth of words.
I really enjoyed this collection, there is an underlying feeling of doom in a lot of these poems, AIDS is a persistent theme (as is the related theme of death), and it makes for an intense experience at times, but the poetry was lyrical and beautiful, and I appreciated a great number of the compositions. My particular favorites were "Human Figures" about private moments that become public; "No" which begins with children and a turtle, but turns into an almost theological query; and "Brilliance", a poem that approaches death head on, but does it in such a beautiful way that you can't help but be moved. I thought the final section of three was by far the strongest, nearly every poem in that section struck me in some way, and I found myself rereading that section a couple of times after I had finished."
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