Deep Lane by Mark Doty Andrew Marvell like wrought iron'

like wrought iron'

Love poems and elegies and heart-rending reflections on the Great War and the Northern Irish Troubles add further weight to Michael Longley’s outstanding eleventh collection

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and eulogies to dearly departed pets

Deep Lane by Mark Doty Andrew Marvell like wrought iron'Mark Doty's poetry has long been celebrated for its risk and candor, an ability to find transcendent beauty even in the mundane and grievous, an unflinching eye that as Philip Levine says "looks away from nothing." In the poems of Deep Lane the stakes are higher: there is more to lose than ever before, and there is more for us to gain. "Pure appetite," he writes ironically early in the collection, "I wouldn't know anything about that." And the