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The Art of Description
The Art of Description: World into Word | Mark Doty
6 posts | 1 reading | 3 to read
"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 someone looking right into your eyes . . ." Doty finds refuge in the sensory experience found in poems by Blake, Whitman, Bishop, and others. The Art of Description is an invaluable book by one of America's most revered writers and teachers.
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KimHM
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Indeed it IS too cold to get out of bed. Fortunately, 💚📚❤️📚💙📚💜📚💛📚🧡📚

Bklover Snuggle up with your blanket and enjoy!📚 4y
TheSpineView Brrr... stay warm. 4y
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Chrissyreadit
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🇺🇸Politically Progressive🗽NYC girl in ⛰WV 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 teenagers!📖⛺️🌲🗺📝reading, writing,camping, hiking🥕vegatarian/lean/vegan🗺travel,🌺🌻garden🍷🍺beer and wine, 🤓behavior specialist👩🏼‍🎓working on 2nd grad degree. 📚homeschool 😴tired😜

Kaye How do you like WV compared to NY ? I think WV is a beautiful state. 6y
callunakeep ☮️ 💕 ☠️🖖🏼 📆 📚🕉♋️⚓️ 6y
Chrissyreadit @Kaye it varies. Sometimes the poverty and ignorance is heartbreaking and frustrating. Other times I love the beauty and I have a great job and wonderful tribe of friends. 6y
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Chrissyreadit @callunakeep translate? Share too! I have peace, love pirates, live long and prosper, yin and yang, reading..., what did I miss? 6y
Clare-Dragonfly 🤰🏻🖋🥕🐰🤰🏻♎️💑🤰🏻📚♻️🤰🏻🤰🏻🤰🏻 6y
callunakeep @Chrissyreadit Peace and love because I am a hippie chick at heart... the skull because I am also in touch with my darker side and love horror, the supernatural, and reading about serial killers... The Vulcan gesture because I am a Trekkie and a sci-fi fan... calendar because I am planner/journal geek...books because books 😝... ohm because my whole life has been and always will be a spiritual journey... not a yin yang though, it is the ... (edited) 6y
callunakeep @Chrissyreadit ...astrological symbol for my sun sign: Cancer...and the anchor because my boyfriend and I love to go boating. 🤓🙌🏻😍 6y
Chrissyreadit @callunakeep ❤️❤️❤️ 6y
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HOTPock3tt
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My #emojidescription explanation:
1) Registered Nurse 2) American 3,4) Happily married 5) loves to read 6) former anime cosplayer 7,8,9) wild streak 10) fave holiday= Halloween 11) loves makeup 12) loves the beach 13) compulsive shopper (I own it!) 14) supports equal rights all Races & LGBT 15,16,17,18) has serious sweet tooth 19) loves to watch tv shows/movies 20) loves all types of music.

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alisiakae
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🙃😻💪🏼✌🏼👩🏻‍🎓🙎🏻‍♀️👨‍👩‍👧 🕶🧣🍁🌻🍓🍠🧀🍜🍩🥟🍷🎾🧘‍♀️🚴🏻‍♀️🎼📚✡️♓️ 🇺🇸

#EmojiDescription @Chelleo

Chelleo What‘s ♓️? 6y
alisiakae @Chelleo Pisces! 6y
mypoesoul 🛌 6y
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Chelleo
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My #EmojiDescription (explanation in comments):

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alisiakae Fun idea! 6y
Chelleo 👩🏾‍🏫Librarian; 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 married mom of 2 boys; 🍽 Love to eat ☕️🥖🥓🍦🍚 Favorite foods; Favorite sport 🏈; Former HS volleyball player 🏐; Love to travel 🛫; love road trips 🛣; love roller coasters🎢; night owl 🌃; wannabe photographer 📸; always in need of sleep 🛌; Have #LitsyPenPals📬; love reading📚; love journaling and letter writing📝; I‘m a Scorpio ♏️; non-smoker🚭; Biracial Filipino African-American family 🇵🇭🇺🇸 (edited) 6y
Jess7 My profile already has this 💙💙 :-) 6y
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Chelleo @Jess7 Genius! 6y
GatheringBooks awesome!!! 6y
SpiderGoddess 🖤🕵️‍♀️💋🖤👠💄🦇🕷🕸🐝🥀🎭🗝✡🕎⛾ 6y
candyturbo Today...😯😔😕💣🐌🌵⛈⚠❌ 6y
britt_brooke I‘m a married mom of 2 boys, nonsmoking scorpio, too. 🙌🏻 6y
JennyBookworm ?????️????☕?☘️⚔️??? - the two parts that probably need explaining are "born on Easter" and "fencing team" lol 6y
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AlexGeorge
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I love Mark Doty and I love this book.

LiteraryinLawrence Back in the 90s I saw Mark Doty do a reading of his poetry on a school field trip. It was great! 6y
AlexGeorge He‘s a fabulous reader. He did the audio for his memoir, DOG YEARS. Tore me apart. 6y
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