Source

By Mark Doty

Subjects: Poetry (poetic works by one author), Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, LGBTQ poetry, collection:thom_gunn_award=winner, Poetry

Description: This bold, wide-ranging collection -- his sixth book of poems -- demonstrates the unmistakable lyricism, fierce observation, and force of feeling that have made Mark Doty's poems special to readers on both sides of the Atlantic.The poems in Source deepen Doty's exploration of the paradox of selfhood. They offer a complex, boldly colored self-portrait; their muscular lines argue fiercely with the fact of limit; they pulse with the drama of perception and the quest to forge meaning.