Sweet Machine: Poems – Joyous, Sensual Poetry on the Living Body, Love, and AIDS

Sweet Machine: Poems – Joyous, Sensual Poetry on the Living Body, Love, and AIDS

<p>Mark Doty's last two award-winning collections of poetry, as well as his acclaimed memoir <em>Heaven's Coast,</em> used the devastation of AIDS as a lens through which to consider questions of loss, love and identity. The poems in his new collection, <em>Sweet Machine,</em> see the world from a new, hard-won perspective: A coming back to life, after so much death, a way of seeing the body's "sweet machine" not simply as a time bomb, but also as a vibrant, sensual, living thing. These poems are themselves "sweet machines"--lyrical, exuberant and joyous--and they mark yet another milestone in the extraordinary career of one of our most distinguished and accomplished poets.</p>