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Mark Doty
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born
August 10, 1953
in Maryville, Tennessee, The United States
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Two images from my garden in The Springs, one on a warm afternoon near the end of May, the other a rainy morning around the same time. This year, more than ever, the place feels full of mystery to me, invested with a depth I couldn't sense so clearly in the past. I think it's in part that I've changed and added enough now to the garden as I found it that it's begun to feel truly mine; in part... read more »
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Dog Years
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2007
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Atlantis
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1995
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My Alexandria
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1993
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Still Life With Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
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2001
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Heaven's Coast
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Fire to Fire
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2008
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Sweet Machine
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Firebird
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1999
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Source
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2001
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School of the Arts
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“Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral courage, or heroism, or altruistic acts, or work in the cause of social change? What about wealth or accomplishment? And yet something about it rings true, finally—that what we want is to be brought into relationship, to be inside, within. Perhaps it’s true that nothing matters more to us than that.”
― Mark Doty, Still Life With Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
― Mark Doty, Still Life With Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
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