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senid's review
5.0
This memoir feels like an epic origin myth, of the things that made the poet the person he was as he wrote this. At one point he says, "I lived. I wanted to live, or at least, now, in the reinvention of the past that remembering is, I want to; I don't want to miss my life, I don't want to miss anything." I know that my past is stories that I've told myself over and over. I think the tone of this memoir is almost perfect. It celebrates and amplifies those stories in the poet's life. I always say that I am looking for the book that has the answer, to some undefinable need in my life. I feel like Mark Doty found some of his answers in writing this memoir.
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