Source

<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>