S T I L L L I F E W I T H O Y S T E R S A N D L E M O N Other books by Mark Doty: Firebird SweetMachine Heaven’sCoast Atlantis MyAlexandria BethleheminBroadDaylight Turtle,Swan SMT I L L AL I F ERW I TKH O Y S T EDR S AON D TL E M OYN BeaconPress Boston BeaconPress BeaconStreet Boston,Massachusetts- www.beacon.org BeaconPressbooks arepublishedundertheauspicesof theUnitarianUniversalistAssociationofCongregations. (cid:1)byMarkDoty Allrightsreserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica               Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepaperthatmeetstheuncoatedpaper ANSI/NISOspecificationsforpermanenceasrevisedin. TextdesignbySaraEisenman CompositionbyWilsted&TaylorPublishingServices LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Doty,Mark. Stilllifewithoystersandlemon/MarkDoty. p. cm. ISBN---(cloth) .Doty,Mark. .Poets,American—thcentury—Biography. .Painting. I.Title. PS.OZ (cid:1).—dc [B] - forRobertJones ...lifewhichissofantasticcannotbealtogethertragic. VirginiaWoolf S T I L L L I F E W I T H O Y S T E R S A N D L E M O N