{"product_id":"deep-lane-poems","title":"Deep Lane: Poems","description":"“Elegant, plain-spoken, and unflinching, Mark Doty’s poems . . . invite us to share their ferocious compassion.”―National Book Award, judges’ citation for Fire to Fire\nMark Doty’s poetry has long been celebrated for its risk and candor, 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 wouldn’t know anything about that.” And the following poem answers:\nDown there the little star-nosed engine of desire\nat work all night, secretive: in the morning\na new line running across the wet grass, near the surface,\nlike a vein. Don’t you wish the road of excess\nled to the palace of wisdom, wouldn’t that be nice?\nDeep Lane is a book of descents: into the earth beneath the garden, into the dark substrata of a life. But these poems seek repair, finally, through the possibilities that sustain the speaker aboveground: gardens and animals, the pleasure of seeing, the world tuned by the word. Time and again, an image of immolation and sacrifice is undercut by the fierce fortitude of nature: nature that is not just a solace but a potent antidote and cure. Ranging from agony to rapture, from great depths to hard-won heights, these are poems of grace and nobility.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0393070239\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0393070239.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Doty, Mark\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43018776805437,"sku":"BVV.0393070239.A","price":9.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0393070239-0.jpg?v=1772398970","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/deep-lane-poems","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}