Atlantis: Poems by

The poignant, accomplished new collection of poetry from the author of My Alexandria—1993 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Los Angeles Times Book Award, 1993 National Book Award Finalist.

The poignant, accomplished new collection of poetry from the author of My Alexandria—1993 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Los Angeles Times Book Award, 1993 National Book Award Finalist.

Library Journal

A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for My Alexandria, Doty offers "eloquent meditations on the essential themesmortality and life, beauty and loss" (LJ 4/14/93)in poems haunted by the specter of AIDS.

Mark Doty's books of poetry and nonfiction prose have been honored with numerous distinctions, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and, in the United Kingdom, the T. S. Eliot Prize. In 2008, he won the National Book Award for Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems. He is a professor at the University of Houston, and he lives in New York City.