Source: Poems – A Bold and Complex Exploration of Selfhood, Perception, and Meaning

Source: Poems – A Bold and Complex Exploration of Selfhood, Perception, and Meaning

<p>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.</p><p>The poems in <em>Source</em> 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.</p>