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  <name><![CDATA[Mark Doty]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Mark Doty is the author of six books of poems and two memoirs, Heaven's Coast and Firebird. A Guggenheim, Ingram-Merrill, and Whiting Fellow, he has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Martha Albrand Prize for Nonfiction. He teaches at the University of Houston, and divides his time between Houston and Provincetown, Massachusetts. 
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  <title><![CDATA[Dog Years: A Memoir]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Still Life With Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems]]></title>
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