School of the Arts

<p>With <em>School of the Arts</em> Mark Doty's darkly graceful seventh collection the poet reinvents his own voice at midlife finding his way through a troubled passage. At once witty and disconsolate -- formally inventive acutely attentive insistently alive -- this is a book of fierce vulnerability that explores the ways in which we are educated by the implacable powers of time and desire in a world that constantly renews itself.</p>