<p> Mark Doty's last two award-winning collections of poetry, as well as his acclaimed memoir <I>Heaven's Coast,</I> used the devastation of AIDS as a lens through which to consider questions of loss, love and identity. The poems in his new collection, <I>Sweet Machine,</I> see the world from a new, hard-won perspective: A coming back to life, after so much death, a way of seeing the body's "sweet machine" not simply as a time bomb, but also as a vibrant, sensual, living thing. These poems are themselves "sweet machines"--lyrical, exuberant and joyous--and they mark yet another milestone in the extraordinary career of one of our most distinguished and accomplished poets. </p>