Mark Doty is the author of eight books of poems, among them Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, School of the Arts, Source, and My Alexandria. He has also published four volumes of nonfiction prose: Still Life with Oysters and Lemon, Heaven's Coast, Firebird and Dog Years, which was a New York Times bestseller in 2007.
Doty’s poems have appeared in many magazines including The Atlantic Monthly, The London Review of Books, Ploughshares, Poetry, and The New Yorker. Widely anthologized, his poems appear in The Norton Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry and many other collections.
Doty has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Whiting Writers Award, two Lambda Literary Awards and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. He is the only American poet to have received the T.S. Eliot Prize in the U.K., and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill and Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Foundations, and from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Doty lives in New York City and in Houston, Texas, where he is John and Rebecca Moores Professor in the graduate program at the University of Houston.
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Atlantis
8 editions - first published in 1995 Borrow -
Heaven's Coast
7 editions - first published in 1996 Borrow -
School of the Arts
6 editions - first published in 2005 Borrow -
Firebird
6 editions - first published in 1999 Borrow -
Source
4 editions - first published in 2001 Borrow -
Dog Years
4 editions - first published in 2007 Borrow -
Bethlehem in Broad Daylight
2 editions - first published in 1991 -
Dog Years CD
2 editions - first published in 2007 -
Dog Years LP
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Turtle, swan
2 editions - first published in 1987 -
Turtle, swan & Bethlehem in broad daylight
2 editions - first published in 1999 -
My Alexandria
2 editions - first published in 1993 -
Still life with oysters and lemon
2 editions - first published in 2001 -
Sweet machine
2 editions - first published in 1998 Borrow -
An Island Sheaf
1 edition - first published in 1998 -
Fire to Fire
1 edition - first published in 2008 -
Gulf Coast (Volume XI, Number 2)
1 edition - first published in 1999 -
Murano
1 edition - first published in 2000 -
My Alexandria (Cape Poetry S.)
1 edition - first published in 1995 -
MY ALEXANDRIA CASSETTE
1 edition - first published in 1995 -
Seeing Venice
1 edition - first published in 2002
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