Doty, Mark 1994
Wednesday, December 14, 1994
with Stuart Dybek
with Stuart Dybek
Suddenly the stairs seem to climb down themselves,
atomized plaster billowing: dust of 1907’s
rooming house, this year’s bake shop and florist’s,
the ghosts of their signs faint above the windows
lined, last week, with loaves and blooms.
– Mark Doty, “Demolition”
Listen to Mark Doty’s 1994 reading for the Poetry Center of Chicago:
Read this interview with Mark Doty from The Cortland Review:
http://www.cortlandreview.com/features/dec98/index.html
Wrapped in gold foil, in the search
and shouting of Easter Sunday,
it was the ball of the princess,
it was Pharoah’s body
sleeping in its golden case.
– Mark Doty, “Ararat”
Watch Mark Doty read his work at the 2006 Dodge Poetry Festival:
Mark Doty reading at the 2006 Dodge Poetry Festival
“The House of Beauty”
