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Source: Poems
Paperback
ISBN13: 9780060935405
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Nov 26 2002
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.36 Depth: 7.98
Language: English
A fierce and radiant inquiry into mortality, desire, and the enduring spark of the self within an impermanent world.
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.
Doty turns a fierce, attentive eye upon the stubborn facts of embodiment, finding in sweat-stained gym vinyl or a taxidermist's preserved parrot the enduring will to resist erasure.
Across coastal piers and centuries-old floorboards, the collection measures the heavy pull of mortality against an insatiable appetite for light.
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.
- Nature Poetry: From three horses wading in a sunlit May pasture to a hermit crab claiming a soda can on a Key West sidewalk, Doty captures the startling, vulnerable vitality of the physical world.
- Love Poems: Whether chronicling a lover's fresh tattoo or an ordinary morning raking leaves beside an apricot tree in bloom, these verses record the durable anchors of partnership.
- Raw Honesty: Doty confronts the devastating grief of the AIDS epidemic, recalling a 1992 winter benefit where a drag performer sang Kurt Weill while snow gathered against the windows.
- Also by This Author: Fire to Fire, Atlantis and Sweet Machine.
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