Deep Lane: Poems NH 'It's always a pull between

'It's always a pull between dirt and heaven

falling apart

But the Trapnest menace still lurks

With a lonely eternity ahead of him

Alice is done with dating--no thank you

Deep Lane: Poems NH 'It's always a pull betweenMark 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