Sweet Machine

<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 <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. </p><p>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>