Still Life With Oysters and Lemon Mark Doty Beacon Press. 128 pages, $18. Murano Mark Doty Getty Trust Publications. 56 pages, $14.95 Mark Doty's most recent book, Still Lifee With Oysters and Lemon, is a meditation on...

The 43-year-old gay man thought by many to be the best poet to have emerged from America in the past 20 years is gingerly easing his long frame down into the Poetry Society's great, steeple-backed Bardic Chair, the one that almost got left behind...

In the following interview, Doty discusses his creative process and aesthetic concerns, his thematic preoccupation with AIDS and gay identity, the influence of place and autobiography in his work, and his experience as a teacher.

In the following essay, the author compares the “poetics of androgyny” in the works of Doty and Wallace Stevens. The discourse of androgyny, according to the author, “bespeaks a uniquely gendered space fraught with relaxations of the known,” and he claims the poetry of Stevens and his admirer Doty both exemplify an attentiveness to “living in difference.”

In the following essay, Jarraway examines the discourse and poetics of androgyny found in Doty's writing, drawing direct parallels between Doty's exploration of gender and sexual identity and that of Wallace Stevens, particularly as revealed in Stevens's correspondence with José Rodríguez Feo.