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Dog Years

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Why do dogs speak so profoundly to our inner lives? When Mark Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he finds himself bringing home Beau, a large golden retriever, malnourished and in need of loving care. Beau joins Arden, the black retriever, to complete their family. As Beau bounds back into life, the two dogs become Mark Doty's intimate compan...more

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Published March 13th 2007 by Harper

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Apr 20, 2013 Jennifer (aka EM) rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Shelves: going-to-the-dogs, prosetry

Beautiful book. Surprising in many ways - the poetry of it; the poetry in it (a lot of Emily Dickinson). Wide-ranging, introspective: from the failure and futility of language as a way to understand another being (leave it to a poet to point out language's short-comings); to the power of love and art to keep us tethered and grounded and here, and to give us the meaning we need to stick around and to rise above grief and despair - the ever-present human condition.

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Aug 08, 2007 Inder rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Melancholy dog lovers

Shelves: dogs, memoir, read-2007, northeast

This is really a book about endless heartbreaking loss, which sounds pretty depressing, and it is. But you can't have joy and love without loss. Since I have gotten my dog, this basic vulnerability seems more clear and poignant than ever. When you really give your heart to an animal, you know you are setting yourself up for loss in the long run, but the experience of giving and receiving unconditional love is so worth it. I'm a sucker for a great dog memoir, and this one is especially lovely.

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Aug 18, 2012 Melissa rated it 1 of 5 stars

I couldn't get through the first chapter. Writing style was kind of academic, not fun, or story-telly.

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Oct 23, 2008 Lara rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: biography-memoir, dogs, very-favorites, 2007, own

It would be redundant to say this book is "poetic." Mark Doty illuminates every subject he touches with the duality of hope and despair, love and loss. He resides in a world of metaphor, and for that reason he cuts into the difficult, the unsayable, with a blade of revelation. This is so much more than a dog book. We're given glimpses of a human life that is woven into and around the lifetime of two dogs. The immediacy that demands, the simplicity of love at its most basic and wild.

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Jul 27, 2012 Jami rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: audio-cd, animal-books, life-stories

This is just okay for me; I would rate it around a 2.5-2.75. As a dog person, I was expecting to enjoy this more. There are some tidbits that I found I could relate and some parts are moving, but sometimes the story is very disjointed. Also, I am listening to this on audio and the author probably should not be narrating the book; it may be more enjoyable in book form.

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Apr 22, 2012 Nathan Burgoine rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: glbt, nonfiction

I rarely step into the world of the memoir unless I've met someone who inspires me to give it a shot. I heard Mark Doty speak at this year's Saints and Sinners in New Orleans, and nabbed this book immediately thereafter.

The book is clever - at first you believe you'll be reading "just" a story about the life of this one particular dog, but it's very quickly obvious that this dog, like all dogs, has woven his way into every part of the lives of his people, and the story widens and narrows in scop...more

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Apr 06, 2011 Kaia Gondron rated it 5 of 5 stars

“Doty, Mark: Dog Years”
HarperCollins Publishing, March 2007

I am one to favor stories about animals. I have always been an avid animal lover, and I enjoy reading stories about things that I can associate myself with. Stories about pets are definitely stories that I can easily lose myself in and, for a reader, that is an amazing feeling.

Mark Doty’s Dog Years immediately delves directly into the topic of his novel: dogs. Any pet owner that reads this book will be smiling and nodding their head dur...more “Doty, Mark: Dog Years”
HarperCollins Publishing, March 2007

I am one to favor stories about animals. I have always been an avid animal lover, and I enjoy reading stories about things that I can associate myself with. Stories about pets are definitely stories that I can easily lose myself in and, for a reader, that is an amazing feeling.

Mark Doty’s Dog Years immediately delves directly into the topic of his novel: dogs. Any pet owner that reads this book will be smiling and nodding their head during the entirety of the first chapter. Doty discusses the life of a dog owner with shocking clarity and perfection. From the starstruck owner telling tales of their pet to an unappreciative audience to the reason why we seem to ventriloquize our pets (“Lola loves that ball!” Doty uses as an example), any pet owner that reads these examples and realizations Doty makes knows it’s all too true.

But the novel isn’t about the way owners communicate with their pets. The meaning reveals itself to be much deeper and much more somber. The tale revolves around two dogs: Beau and Arden, and golden retriever and a black retriever. Beau was adopted as a sort of companion dog for Doty’s dying life partner. The calm Arden, the hyper Beau, and the striving couple make a family. The dogs bring comfort to the dying Wally, then to Doty after his partner passes. They fill the void that his partner left behind, and serve as a comfort to the lovely and heartbroken author.

The dogs bring him up out of the rut of depression Doty has fallen into, and for a time everything is happy. A new partner enters the picture, and it’s amusing to read about Arden’s dislike of the new family, and the reader is content to bask in the little family’s happiness. But remember, this story is about the recovery from despair and finding hope – and it’s not over.

The dogs become ill. Doty falls back into that crippling depression, the dogs echoing his past partner Wally’s decline. He is helpless against despair, and the loss of his dogs is seemingly the last thing he can take. The only thing that keeps him from ending it all himself, Doty reflects, is the idea of Beau suffering. His dog’s last days are heartbreaking for both author and reader, and I would be lying if I said some tears weren’t shed. Though Doty pulls through, with no little amount of melancholy.

The eye-opening thing is, the novel really isn’t about the dogs at all. The dogs are merely a channel, a means for telling a story that Doty felt everyone needs to hear. It’s a tale about life and death, despair and hope. The story can be empathized with every type of reader: you don’t have to be a dog lover to really get this book, and, no matter what your interests are, this novel speaks to all about life and its ups and downs.
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Sep 07, 2009 Sherrie rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Why do dogs speak so deeply to our inner lives? When Mark Doty decides to adopt a dog as a companion for his dying partner, he brings home Beau, a large golden retriever, malnourished and in need of loving care. Beau joins Arde, the black retriever, to complete Mark's family. As Beau bounds back to like, the two dogs become Mark Doty's intimate companions, his solace, and eventually the very life force that keeps him from abandoning all hope during t...more

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Aug 12, 2007 heather rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2007, biography

a beautiful memoir organized around the two retrievers in doty's life. doty is, by the way, one of the great contemporary american poets. this book contains everything that his best poems do: wit, humor, self-awareness, communal-awareness, philosophy, warmth, sorrow. i cannot recommend it highly enough. perhaps the great achievement of dog years is that it is emotional without being sentimental. it examines life and love without pretense or arrogance.

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Jul 29, 2007 Stephanie rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: dog lovers

This book took me on something of an emotional rollercoaster ride. Doty seems to be at his best when he is focusing on the details of the lives of the two dogs he recounts here, and what it is to live with dogs who are getting older. The pace is fairly breezy, until he describes the end of both dogs' lives -- then it becomes so painstakingly detailed that I felt like I was there with Doty and the dog in question. To be read with kleenex nearby.

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Oct 22, 2011 Darlene rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is a wonderfully moving story of a man and his love for all of the dogs who have passed through his life. Mr. Doty is a teacher of poetry and a poet by profession and his writing has a beautiful lyrical quality which I loved.

Mr. Doty wrote his very personal story in a way which really resonated with me. He put into words things that I've felt but could never express.He talks about the grief that he felt over the passing of his lifelong partner from AIDS, the death of their dog, Beau, who...more

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Nov 04, 2011 Elizabeth rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: never-forget, recent-reads

i truly was touched by this book. doty has beautiful passages not only about the beauty of a dog's simplicity, but about the ache of losing a long loved companion. there are so many great quotes from the book that i found myself dog-earing pages to go back and underline the words. i cried more than once and doty's words made me appreciate and look at my six furry companions in a new light. excellent.

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Jun 22, 2012 Diane rated it 4 of 5 stars

Sorry and sheepish to say, I'm not a dog person (thanks to some unfortunate early experiences, one serious bite, and a nasty little critter now living next door) so it took more than one recommendation from a friend to get me to read this book. I'm not sorry I did and feel as if I understand a little more how it is people get so attached to their dogs. We certainly did get attached to our cats in my household. The book is as much about mortality and humans as it is about dogs, written by a poet...more

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Sep 13, 2007 Meagen rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: those who love to laugh and cry

this book should only be read by those dog owners who love to cry as much as they love to laugh. it's really well written; even though i might have had to put it down for days at a time (because of the sadness) i could not just not finish it. it's reminded me to enjoy tessy as much as possible NOW, since the time will pass more quickly than humanly imaginable.

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Oct 13, 2010 tamarack rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

To enjoy this book you will probably have to be "a bit of a dog person". By this I mean you will have to like dogs, and will need to possess a certain tolerance for those of us who are a little crazy about our pets. Despite the secret pride I keep to myself for not being "a crazy dog person", I can easily relate to a man who essentially sees his life through dog-coloured glasses.

Dog Years is not so much about dogs as it is about Doty's life with his dogs. This is a book about Rhode Island, writ...more

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Aug 01, 2010 Lize rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2009, dogs

I was hauling this one around last fall when my husband was interviewing in New Hampshire, and we were trying to find someplace to live that would accept our three dogs. I was in the early stages of the panic freak-out which would finish me off a few months later, and I figured it was too much book for me at the time (in the main, it's about the author adopting a dog as a companion for his dying partner) so I put it away for a while. I'm glad I waited. Yes, it's sad in places, but without a drop...more I was hauling this one around last fall when my husband was interviewing in New Hampshire, and we were trying to find someplace to live that would accept our three dogs. I was in the early stages of the panic freak-out which would finish me off a few months later, and I figured it was too much book for me at the time (in the main, it's about the author adopting a dog as a companion for his dying partner) so I put it away for a while. I'm glad I waited. Yes, it's sad in places, but without a drop of gooey sentimentality like that certain *ahem* 'more popular' book about a dog that I couldn't stand. At its heart, it's an incredibly profound look at grief and losses of all kinds, and it turned out to be exactly what I needed right now.

There are several passages that really got to me, and I wanted to remember them. This is one:

"You can only understand the world through what's at hand. Everything else is an idea about reality, a picture or a number, a theory or a description. There's nowhere to begin but here.

A while ago, I had a drink with a new acquaintance, who was taking a little time away from his work and had come to the seashore to write a screenplay. Over a beer, in the way that people offer a topic of conversation in order to know one another better, he asked what I'd like to do if my commitments were all waived, if I suddenly had the freedom to choose whatever. I said I'd buy a place with a barn, in the country, and open a shelter for homeless retrievers.

He looked at me a little incredulously. He seemed to be choosing his words carefully. "I don't know," he said, "when people talk about what they want to do for animals, I always wonder why that compassion isn't offered to other people."

My anger flared, a hot, fierce flush. I said, "You asked me what I wanted to do, not what I thought I should do."

He nodded. "Fair enough." But the damage was done, the judgment cast. If I'd been more thoughtful and less offended, I might have said that compassion isn't a limited quality, something we can only possess so much of and which thus must be carefully conserved. I might have said, if I was truly being honest, that I've never known anyone holding this opinion to demonstrate much in the way of empathy with other people anyway; it seems that compassion for animals is an excellent predictor of one's ability to care for one's fellow human beings.

But the plain truth is no one should have to defend what he loves. If I decide to become one of those dotty old people who live alone with six beagles, who on earth is harmed by the extremity of my affections? There is little enough devotion in the world that we should be glad for it in whatever form it appears, and never mock or underestimate its depths.

Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it."

And another one:

"Sometimes I seem to clank with my appended losses, as if I wear an ill-fitting, grievous suit of armor.

There was a time when such weight was strengthening; it kept me from being too light on my feet; carting it about and managing to function at the same time required the development of muscle, of new strength. But there is a point at which the suit becomes an encumbrance, something that keeps one from scaling stairs or leaping to greet a friend; one becomes increasingly conscious of the plain fact of heaviness.

And then, at some point, there is the thing, the dreadful thing, which might, in fact, be the smallest of losses: of a particular sort of hope, of the belief that one might, in some fundamental way, change. Of the belief that a new place or a new job will freshen one's spirit; of the belief that the new work you're doing is the best work, the most alive and true. And that loss, whatever it is, its power determined not by its particular awfulness but merely by its placement in the sequence of losses that any life is, becomes the one that makes the weighted suit untenable. It's the final piece of the suit of armor, the plate clamped over the face, the helmet through which one can hardly see the daylight, nor catch a full breath of air."(less)

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May 20, 2013 Sharon rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

To begin with, I am a real softy with dog books, especially ones with golden retrievers on the cover, which is on my copy of the book.

The reason I did not give this book my usual five stars, is because I fully expected to cry while reading this book, and for some reason, even after the death of Wally, Mr. Doty's life partner and both family dogs, I still did not cry...that was a first and I don't know why.

One scene from the book continues to haunt me, and that is when Mr. Doty was about four, hi...more

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Sep 19, 2007 Tamarind rated it 3 of 5 stars

I didn't particularly enjoy this author's writing style, and he seemed to jump around a lot, but I kept reading because of his love for his dogs. When both of the dogs died, I cried each time, out of love for my dog, and for the he love he had for his dogs.

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Nov 18, 2009 Kp rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2009-books

This book is an indulgence for the dog lover, particularly one who has loved a geriatric dog. There are some beautiful old dog images that will hit close to home for those that have loved and lost an old dog. The author also has some poignant observations about grief, loss, and depression. When I first started the book, I knew it would be heart wrenching and I almost did not proceed with it. The last pages found me sobbing… but I am still glad I read it. There is no doubt that the dogs in this b...more

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Mar 07, 2013 Marilyn Matheny rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: grief-and-loss, i-own-this

Exquisite. His powers of observation and ability to express them are stunning. He wrestles with grief in the way that one struck deeply by it must do. Why are we so unprepared for it? How does it change us? How do I go on?

He loses his lover after a long illness but is sustained by the presence and physicality of their 2 dogs. The death of these dogs as well leads him to dark psychological places. He is a poet and writes of the illness and the death of these two dogs as carefully and familiarly a...more

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Dec 28, 2010 Mel rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: couldn-t-finish

After reading an excerpt from the first chapter and the book's description I was so excited to read this book. I love dogs, I love memoirs, I loved the comparison the author made of telling people about your dreams to telling people about your pets.

I read the first 70 pages, a solid third, and I just couldn't stick with it. While I enjoyed the individual anecdotes, it was so meandering that I just couldn't get hooked. A quick story about his current dog followed by a tidbit about his childhood d...more

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Aug 17, 2012 Libby rated it 4 of 5 stars

Doty tells not only about his two dogs, Arden and Beau, but also about his life, including caring for a dying partner, and being in NYC on September 11, 2011. Interspersed between chapters are reflections, including several references to Emily Dickinson's poetry. I enjoyed reading about the dogs and was moved by his reactions to their illnesses and eventual deaths. Don't all dog books end this way? After Beau's death at age six, Doty enters into deep despair and reflects on the difference betwe...more

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Dec 22, 2010 Marina rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: good-for-the-soul

Mark Doty speaks about the depths of the human (and animal) experience with such clarity, and yet such reserve, that one cannot help but resonate with the experiences recounted in the book at the very core of one's being. It is a story of love, and loss... and regeneration, written in brilliant prose and with disarming sincerety.

Doty weaves his story around the connexion that a human feels with his companion animals, a task that few writers are able to accomplish without resorting to sentimenta...more

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Aug 17, 2011 Allison rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: memoir

A friend told me to wait 3 months after the death of my beloved Chihuahua to read this book. I did and began the reading on the date of Corduroy's would have been 8th birthday.

What I enjoy about this book is that it is profoundly the experience of one man, and yet every person who loves a dog understand the depths of the grief and so it becomes so much more than the grief of one person. This memoir becomes a philosophical reflection on love and loss, the need for desire and despair and how we hu...more

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Feb 21, 2011 Angela rated it 3 of 5 stars

I would give this three and a half stars if I had the option. The jacket copy makes it sound like this is a memoir of the author's partner's death, but it is much more stream-of-conscious than linear, and "about" a lot more. Doty goes back and forth between memories, at first I found this a bit jarring but I either got used to it or it got smoother, more like a friend relating stories over beer.
Doty writes wonderfully (he is a poet, after all). He also writes for other dog lovers - something he...more

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Jun 28, 2010 Sue rated it 4 of 5 stars

A touching story if you're a dog lover. Even if you're not you may get into the themes of love and loss, life and death. Doty shows us his life with his two dogs, one who has been with him for 16 years. He talks about his healing from the grief he experiences as his long-time partner dies from complications from AIDS but didn't really think it was a maudlin book. There was humor and deep insight. Doty is a poet so the book is also sprinkled with his moving poetry throughout.

Might be a little st...more

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Oct 12, 2012 Chavi rated it 1 of 5 stars

Disclaimer: I did not finish the book.
I thought this book would help me appreciate the relationship between people and their dogs. It's something foreign to me, and I've been opposed to it - I mean why invest in a relationship that's going to develop your animal brain?
So I picked up this book with an attempted open mind. Convince me. Didn't work. I was bored. And disinterested. (Is that the same thing?)
The only thing it did teach me was live and let live. If having a dog makes you happy, go with...more

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Mar 14, 2009 Vid rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book is so much more than just a reflection upon the meaning of dogs in our lives, which is a worthy subject in itself. As a poet, Doty is able to express what is most inexpressible about the nature of relationships between 2 beings - in this case man and dog - and he also delves into the deeper realms of what it means to be alive and connected to this world. I know I will return again to this book as there is so much more to absorb. Warning: keep a box of kleenex handy. Doty's willingness...more

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Apr 05, 2011 Valerie Carpenter rated it 4 of 5 stars

Dog Years: A Memoir by Mark Doty, Published by HarperCollins, 2007

In 1994, Mark Doty wrote through the pain of watching his sick wife die a slow death by AIDS. He used his skill at writing Memoirs to write this heart rendering story of his experience and the route he took to cope with it. In order to understand the technique of his writing, you must understand a synopsis of the story – In restlessly searching for the feeling of comfort, Doty has an encounter with a four legged friend who is in n...more Dog Years: A Memoir by Mark Doty, Published by HarperCollins, 2007

In 1994, Mark Doty wrote through the pain of watching his sick wife die a slow death by AIDS. He used his skill at writing Memoirs to write this heart rendering story of his experience and the route he took to cope with it. In order to understand the technique of his writing, you must understand a synopsis of the story – In restlessly searching for the feeling of comfort, Doty has an encounter with a four legged friend who is in need of love and support just as he. The malnourished Golden Retriever, to-be-known as Beau, comes into Doty’s life, in which seems to be the perfect time. This “lovable sloppy dog” as stated in the book, brings as sense of joy, humor and relief to the troubled household of Doty, his wife and their black lab, Arden.

With being an award winning Memoir, Mark Doty obviously captured his personal story with observations he experiences and shaped these feelings, emotions and insights to his readers. Doty has stated, “Too easy an acceptance seems, frankly, sentimental, an erasure of the particular irreplaceable stuff of individuality with a vague, generalized truth.” – In which he explains why he uses, yet again, the appearances of both dogs in his life, Beau and Arden. He speaks of these dogs as his “secret heroes of my own vitality,” which alludes to the fact that he writes his Memoirs with a focal point on specific things (I this case, his dogs) that have monumentally influenced his life. As a writer, this was encouraging to understand prior to reading “Dog Years”, because it gave me foreshadow into how important the use and decision of choosing characters can be. Doty taught me through this symbolic and heart-filled story, that gaining a tactile grasp on the world is possible in writing. When reading, I learned that Doty does a wonderful job illuminating visual details. For example, the old house in Provincetown that has been dressed up with a “chocolatey-plum varnish” is a great example of imagery. Then, he uses colorful language to describe that imager; “the whole thing gleams like a vaguely dangerous piece of pastry.” He describes Beau and Arden as “frolicking” around the Cape, Greenwich Village, and forms a touching realization; “When he swims in the Great Salt Lake, water so thick with salinity it’s weirdly buoying, he rides up high on the small waves, his mouth closed, and his dignified head sailing above the surface.” Something even more encouraging to me as a writer and reader was Doty’s use of historical reference in his own writing. Here is where I have come to realize I need more engagement in my own writing. For example, “Arden is positively symphonic with scent, like that fantasy creation of the decadent symbolist des Esseintes, in Huysman’s 19th-century novel, the perfume organ.” Personally, I have slightly used references to other pieces of writing in my own, and learned from Doty that I am able to do so.

Obviously filled with respectful mediations, “Dog Years” is revered as a Memoir sought to uncover the canine thought process and emotions. In being able to convey the ideas of a living creature with speechless abilities, I believe Doty is a genius at what he does. I find it encouraging sharing the emotion of creatures in my own work, and feel reassured by what I experienced in reading “Dog Years,” that I am “allowed” to assume animal thoughts, desires and grief. Furthermore, Doty takes on a topic a bit more resistant to me as a writer, death. With a fear of acknowledging that topic, I veer away from writing about it, but thanks to this story I have become more open to writing about it myself. Doty’s Memoir turns into a book about his dog’s mortality, and he finds a way of taking ordinary occasions from the outside and making them an intense means of his poetry. As a result, Mark Doty’s ability to conform reality into authentic writing is an admiration to me as a writer and reader. I hope to engage my readers, as he does me, in shedding wisdom on issues that are dear to my heart.
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Oct 02, 2011 Koeeoaddi rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: beasties, memoirs-essays-opinion, 2011, favorites

Update: I was right. It's my favorite book so far this year.

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"The man pauses and says “I don’t know…when people talk about what they want to do for animals I always wonder why that compassion isn’t offered to other people.”

My anger flared, a hot, fierce flush. I said, “You asked me what I wanted to do, not what I thought I should do.”

He nodded. “Fair enough.” But the damage was done, the judgment cast. If I’d been more thoughtful and less offended, I might have said that compass...more

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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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