The Art of Description: World Into Word

by Mark Doty

Book Overview

It sounds like a simple thing, to say what you see, Mark Doty begins. But try to find words for the shades of a mottled sassafras leaf, or the reflectivity of a bay on an August morning, or the very beginnings of desire stirring in the gaze of someone looking right into your eyes . . . Doty finds refuge in the sensory experience found in poems by Blake, Whitman, Bishop, and others. The Art of Description is an invaluable book by one of America's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555975631
• ISBN13: 9781555975630
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.9" x 6.9"