Key West Literary Seminar

Mark Doty: 2008

Posted by Arlo Haskell on October 18, 2008 | |
Doty_Mark2.jpg Mark Doty is the author of eight books of poems and four volumes of nonfiction prose. He has received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and his Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems is nominated for the 2008 National Book Award in poetry. In this recording from our 2008 Seminar, Doty reads a selection of work inspired by a visit to Key West in 1997, including a section from his 2007 memoir Dog Years, and the poems "Sea Grape Valentine," "Watermelon Soda," and "Catalina Macaw."

SeaGrape.jpg        from "Watermelon Soda"

       Strange island,
       to yield a walking
       hot-pink soda can
       inhabited by a lucky
       Modernist crab,
       carrying on his back
       a tropic shelter
       by Barragan
       or Corbusier,
       perennially modish
       if not quite practical...

From KWLS 2008: New Voices. (11:19) / 5.2 MB


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This recording is being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2008 Mark Doty. Used with generous permission from Mark Doty.

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