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Title	:	Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
Author	:	Mark Doty
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 70 pages
Published	:	January 19th 2002 by Beacon Press (first published 2001)
Categories	:	Art. Nonfiction. Writing. Essays. Poetry. Autobiography. Memoir. Philosophy

Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy

Mark Doty

Paperback | Pages: 70 pages

Rating: 4.2 | 1474 Users | 151 Reviews

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Although at first glance this slim volume appears to be a quick read, it should be lingered over and reread to uncover the full depth of its beauty and insight. Combining memoir with artistic and philosophical musings, the poet and National Book Critics Circle Award winner (for My Alexandria) begins by confessing his obsession with the 17th-century Dutch still life that serves as the title of this book. As he analyzes the items depicted in the painting, he skillfully introduces his thoughts on our intimate relationships to objects and subsequently explains how they are often inextricably bound to the people and places of an individual lifetime. Further defined by imperfections attained from use, each object from an aging oak table to a chipped blue and white china platter forms a springboard for reflection. Doty intersperses personal reminiscences throughout, but he always returns to the subject of still-life painting and its silent eloquence. Doty's observations on balance, grief, beauty, space, love, and time are imparted with wisdom and poetic grace.


Books like this, that address the sources of creation and the sources of our humanness, come along once in a decade. -Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times

"This small book is as wise, sensitive, intense, and affecting as anything I have read in recent years." -Doris Grumbach, author of Fifty Days of Solitude

"A gem." -Library Journal

"Mark Doty's prose is insistently exploratory, yet every aside, every detour, turns into pertinence, and it all seems effortless, as though the author were wondering, and marveling, aloud." -Bernard Cooper, author of Truth Serum

"A dazzling accomplishment, its radiance bred of lucid attention and acute insight. The subject is the profoundly personal act of perception translated into description. Doty succeeds in rendering this most contemplative of arts-the still life-into a riveting drama." -Patricia Hampl, author of I Could Tell You Stories

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Original Title:	Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
ISBN:	0807066095 (ISBN13: 9780807066096)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 4.2 From 1474 Users | 151 Reviews

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What are the odds of reading two five-star books back-to-back? This one defies description. I stopped half-way through so I could order a personal copy. When it comes, I will re-read it and highlight the many places I was unable to mark in the library copy.

Despite some ravishing prose, this short meditation on the wonders of Dutch Golden Age still life painting wasn't able to capture my imagination. Or it did, but then in a negative sense. There's something in this book that really annoyed me, and it is hard to put the finger on it. Maybe it's simply that Doty's admiration for representations of oysters and lemons is an alibi to extemporise on other, more carnal pleasures. That is perfectly legitimate, of course, but it's rather removed from what

I participate in my life more completely after reading this book. Contemplating the intimate process of creating and looking at paintings, reading and reflecting on well-chosen words, or thinking, over and over, "that may be the most beautifully crafted sentence or paragraph I've ever read," are gifts I got from this book. I couldn't read it quickly, even though it is short. I would have missed out on too much.

As I read this book, it gradually evolved from an interesting to arresting work, from writing to poetry, to art. I've never really loved still life as much as I enjoy other types of visual arts. Through this piece I've learned a new respect for still life and now can look at them through new eyes. Through this, there are also new ways to look at life.Mark Doty has a skill for clarifying meaning so well and for using language skillfully and beautifully. The poet shows even in the prose. I have to

I read this gorgeous little book very slowly, because I wanted to savor all of it. It amazed me how seamlessly Mark Doty's writing moves from considering still lifes (not a type of art I was especially interested in until I read this book) to remembering fragments of his own history to pondering--deeply, surprisingly--enormous topics like art and death and the relationship between the two. He also considers the life of objects--what and how they mean, why we cherish them and what they can teach

As I read this book, it gradually evolved from an interesting to arresting work, from writing to poetry, to art. I've never really loved still life as much as I enjoy other types of visual arts. Through this piece I've learned a new respect for still life and now can look at them through new eyes. Through this, there are also new ways to look at life.Mark Doty has a skill for clarifying meaning so well and for using language skillfully and beautifully. The poet shows even in the prose. I have to

An exquisite and almost devastating rumination on life, death, and the gestures that help us make sense of "memory's theater". I haven't read his poetry (yet) but this is exceptionally lucid prose, biographical or otherwise. Doty says that "when we describe the world we come closer to saying what we are" and then proceeds to tell us, with impressive richness and clarity, how he sees. Given his poet's eyes the journey is remarkable.