I recently read "The Art of Description" by Mark Dory and found it very engaging. Does anyone have any recommendations for short books that enhance your story telling/technical skills in writing?
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Mark Doty American writer Mark Doty was BOTD in 1953. Born in Maryville, Tennessee, he studied at Drake University in Iowa and Goddard College in Vermont. He published his first poetry collection, Turtle, Sw…

American poet and essayist Mark Doty, best known for his 1993 poetry collection “My Alexandria”, written at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, was BOTD in 1953, turning 72 today. #markdoty #supergays #bornonthisday #myalexandria

Any small thing can save you.
Because the golden egg gleamed
in my basket once, though my childhood
became an immense sheet of darkening water
I was Noah, and I was his ark,
and there were two of every animal inside me.

- #MarkDoty, 'Ararat'

ARARAT
by #MarkDoty

Wrapped in gold foil, in the search
and shouting of Easter Sunday,
it was the ball of the princess,
it was Pharaoh’s body
sleeping in its golden case.

sculpture and plant in the role of Humpty Dumpty

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