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Excerpt from
Not, exactly, green:
closer to bronze
preserved in kind brine,
something retrieved
from a Greco-Roman wreck,
patinated and oddly
muscular. We cannot
know what his fantastic
legs were like--
Mark Doty's Home Page
Mark Doty at The Academy of American Poets
Interview with Mark Doty by Mark Wunderlich
I, for one, am hungry to read poems of American life now, in all its messy complications, with its terrors and uncertainties and possible grounds for hope.
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