Source: Poems

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.

Author: Mark Doty
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 11/26/2002
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.24lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.36w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780060935405

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 02/09/2003 pg. 28

About the Author
Doty, Mark: -

Mark Doty's books of poetry and nonfiction prose have been honored with numerous distinctions, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and, in the United Kingdom, the T. S. Eliot Prize. In 2008, he won the National Book Award for Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems. He is a professor at the University of Houston, and he lives in New York City.