Mark Doty

Charli Valdez

Ed. by Nick Selby, University of East Anglia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 10 Aug 1953
Activity 1996-ongoing

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Cultural Identities

LGBTQ

Activities

Primary

Memoirist
Poet

Resources

Mark Doty is a poet of the salt marsh and the City, the ruins and the intimate, travel and home. His poetic presence is generosity married to a tempered vision and an elegant luminosity. He frequently calls on, and resonates, the essence of C.P. Cavafy, and has written on Walt Whitman. Doty’s ouevre includes nine volumes of poetry, five books of prose, and five special editions that include a single-poem ekphrastic book, Murano: The Island of Glass, and Seeing Venice: Belotto’s Grand Canal published in 2000 and 2003 by the J. Paul Getty Museum. He edited the collection of essays, Open House: Writers Redefine Home, published in 2003 by Graywolf Press. His poetry has appeared in The Atlantic …

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Citation: Valdez, Charli. "Mark Doty". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 13 September 2010 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12205, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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