| This bold wide-ranging new collection -- Mark Doty s sixth book of poems -- demonstrates the unmistakable lyricism, fierce observation and force of feeling that have made his poetry significant to readers on both sides of the Atlantic.The new poems in Source deepen Doty s exploration of the paradox of selfhood. Are we edgeless and unbounded, or locked within our own singularity? What is it to be one person in the world s great multiplicity of selves?Source investigates matters of public life -- the degradation of Walt Whitman s vision of a democratic America, a child s display of longing on a New York sidewalk, Provincetown s restless summer crowds. But the poems also turn toward the realm of private struggle, how the self is claimed and lost through desire, how the dapple of light on a hotel windowsill makes a claim for the life of the soul.Source is a complex, boldly colored selfportrait; its muscular lines argue fiercely with the fact of limit, and pulse with the drama of perception, the quest to forge meaning. |
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