Thought for the Day

Being in grief, it turns out, is not unlike being in love. . . .

~ Mark Doty

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Quoted from "115 Beacon Street" in Heaven's Coast: A Memoir (Harper Perennial, 1996) (This is a beautifully written book about Doty's loss to AIDS of his partner Wally.)

Mark Doty at Academy of American Poets, Modern American Poetry, The Poetry Foundation, 

Read Doty's fine new collection Deep Lane (W.W. Norton, 2015). A review is posted at The Guardian.