My Alexandria comprises a series of eloquent meditations on the essential themes: mortality and life, beauty and loss. The collection is haunted by the spectre of AIDS, but is transfigured by Mark Doty’s ranging imagination, effortless stylistic skill and huge emotional power.
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The intact façade’s now almost black
in the rain; all day they’ve torn at the back
of the building, ‘the oldest concrete structure
in New England’ the newspaper said.
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(@vintagebooks, 30 November 2011, ebook, 88 pages, borrowed from @natpoetrylib via @OverDriveLibs)
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The themes covered in this collection are similar to Atlantis. There’s something I really like about the poet’s voice. I enjoyed every poem in this collection, some quite a bit more than others. What impressed me about these poems is how emotional I felt reading them and the range of ideas and emotions expressed. This is an impressive work.
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