Deep Lane by Mark Doty Bloomsbury Olds delivers these pieces with

Olds delivers these pieces with all the passion

Her truth-gaze is unswerving

as well as poems that serve as a tonic to lift the spirits – the anthology contains poems old and new

that a stone is a nucleus of guilty safety

have been unjustly neglected

Deep Lane by Mark Doty Bloomsbury Olds delivers these pieces withMark Doty's poetry has long been celebrated for its risk and candor, an ability to find transcendent beauty even in the mundane and grievous, an unflinching eye that as Philip Levine says "looks away from nothing." In the poems of Deep Lane the stakes are higher: there is more to lose than ever before, and there is more for us to gain. "Pure appetite," he writes ironically early in the collection, "I wouldn't know anything about that." And the