Mark Doty: 2008
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."
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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