Deep Lane

Name: Deep Lane
Brand: Vintage Publishing

Vintage Publishing

Deep LaneAuthor(s): Mark Doty\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom\nImprint: Jonathan Cape\nISBN-13: 9780224099837, 978-0224099837\nSynopsis\nMark Dotys poetry has long been celebrated for its risk and candour, an ability to find transcendent beauty even in the mundane and grievous, an unflinching eye that as Philip Levine says looks away from nothing. In the poems of Deep Lane the stakes are higher: there is more to lose than ever before, and there is more for us to gain. Pure appetite, he writes ironically early in the collection, I wouldnt know anything about that. And the following poem answers: \n\nDown there the little star-nosed engine of desire \nat work all night, secretive: in the morning\n\na new line running across the wet grass, near the surface, \n\nlike a vein. Dont you wish the road of excess \nled to the palace of wisdom, wouldnt that be nice? \n\nDeep Lane is a book of descents: into the earth beneath the garden, into the dark substra.