My Alexandria: POEMS (National Poetry Series)

My Alexandria: POEMS (National Poetry Series)

This is the first cloth edition of one of the most highly praised and touching collections of poems to appear in recent years. In selecting it for the National Poetry Series, Philip Levine said: "The courage of this book is that it looks away from nothing: the miracle is that wherever it looks it finds poetry. . . . Mark Doty is a maker of big, risky, fearless poems in which ordinary human experience becomes music."     A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for My Alexandria, Doty offers "eloquent meditations on the essential themes?mortality and life, beauty and loss" (LJ 4/14/93)?in poems haunted by the specter of AIDS. Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize, 1995.  Winner of a Whiting Writers' Award, 1994.  Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.  Finalist, National Book Award, 1993.   Winner of the L.A. Times Book Award in Poetry. Mark Doty, the recipient of a 1994 Whiting Writers' Award, is the author of two previous books of poetry, Turtle, Swan and Bethlehem in Broad Daylight. His next collection is Atlantis.