Poets make the best memoirists

[image error]My favorite memoirs are by poets: Kathryn Harrison's The Kiss. Mary Karr's The Liars Club. Lucy Grealy's Autobiography of a Face. Tonight I heard the most incredible essay, by  poet Mark Doty; it appears in the "Sex" issue of Granta and is called The Unwriteable. It's about a gay affair he had when he was 18 and married. He wrote, "Now I understand that his body–beautiful though no gym body of a later decade, a broad chest with a rich swath of hair, the beard pointing downward as though to...