Mark Doty's last two award-winning collections of poetry, as well as his acclaimed memoir Heaven's Coast, used the devastation of AIDS as a lens through which to consider questions of loss, love and identity. The poems in Sweet Machine see the world from a new, hard-won perspective: A coming back to life, after so much death, a way of seeing the body's sweet machine not simply as a time bomb, but also as a vibrant, sensual, living thing.

These poems are themselves sweet machines--lyrical, exuberant and joyous--and they mark yet another milestone in the extraordinary career of one of our most distinguished and accomplished poets.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 05/27/2015
ISBN: 9780060952563
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 9.20h x 5.99w x 0.40d
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Nominee
Award: Boston Book Review - Nominee
Award: ALA Notable Books - Winner

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/26/1998 pg. 87
Library Journal 03/15/1998 pg. 66