Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy -- Mark Doty, Paperback

Mark Doty's prose has been hailed as "tempered and tough, sorrowing and serene" (The New York Times Book Review) and "achingly beautiful" (The Boston Globe). In Still Life with Oysters and Lemon he offers a stunning exploration of our attachment to ordinary things-how we invest objects with human store, and why.

Author: Mark Doty
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 01/19/2002
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.51w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780807066096

About the Author
Mark Doty is the author of six books of poems and two memoirs, Heaven's Coast and Firebird. A Guggenheim, Ingram-Merrill, and Whiting Fellow, he has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Martha Albrand Prize for Nonfiction. He teaches at the University of Houston, and divides his time between Houston and Provincetown, Massachusetts.