In preparation for Wednesday’s visit with poet Mark Doty, I read the following quote from a 1997 interview to my students:
“I wait to be haunted, as it were, by an image … What happens is something I see registers on a deeper level than most experience does. A seal in the harbor, or the wreck [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Mark Doty’
March 28, 2008
Quote Unquote: Haunted
March 25, 2008
Things that threaten to swamp your craft
photo by Aja Riggs
Every now and then my students amaze me. Okay, at least once a week my students amaze me.
This week’s tale goes something like this: We’ve been reading poems by Mark Doty, who’ll be visiting our school Wednesday. And of course you can’t really read too far into Mark’s work without coming upon [...]
