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==Description==
 
==Description==
  
Author who is notable for the award-winning memoir 'Heaven's Coast' (2009), a book about the dying by AIDS of his lover.  Other books include his third award-winning book of poetry 'My Alexandria' (1993) about the AIDS epidemic, and collection of biography, criticism and memoir 'What is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life' (2020).  His success as a poet has inspired many other gay male poets.  Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry (2008).   
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Author who is notable for the award-winning memoir 'Heaven's Coast' (2009), a book about the dying by AIDS of his lover.  Other books include his third award-winning book of poetry 'My Alexandria' (1993) about the AIDS epidemic, and collection of biography, criticism and memoir 'What is the Grass: [[Walt Whitman]] in My Life' (2020).  His success as a poet has inspired many other gay male poets.  Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry (2008).   
  
 
==Further Reading/Research==
 
==Further Reading/Research==
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* http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/mark-doty
 
* http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/mark-doty
 
* http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/09/mark-doty-poetry-aids-chronicler-interview
 
* http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/09/mark-doty-poetry-aids-chronicler-interview
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* https://www.advocate.com/books/2020/7/03/why-walt-whitman-americas-poet-was-queer-pioneer
 
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30GnZxuUpnY
 
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30GnZxuUpnY
  

Latest revision as of 13:22, 9 July 2020

Mark Doty

Country

United States

Birth - Death

1953 -

Occupation

Writer

Description

Author who is notable for the award-winning memoir 'Heaven's Coast' (2009), a book about the dying by AIDS of his lover. Other books include his third award-winning book of poetry 'My Alexandria' (1993) about the AIDS epidemic, and collection of biography, criticism and memoir 'What is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life' (2020). His success as a poet has inspired many other gay male poets. Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry (2008).

Further Reading/Research


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