The Art of Description: World Into Word by Mark Doty

The Art of Description: World Into Word

Mark Doty

140 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction poetry reference informative reflective slow-paced

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It sounds like a simple thing, to say what you see, Mark Doty begins. But try to find words for the shades of a mottled sassafras leaf, or the reflectivity of a bay on an August morning, or the very beginnings of desire stirring in the gaze of som...

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