The Spectral Wilderness

Winner of the 2013 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, Mark Doty, Judge It's a joy . . . to come nearer to a realm of experience little explored in American poetry, the lives of those who are engaged in the complex project of transforming their own gender . . . Oliver Bendorf writes from a paradoxical, new-world position: the adult voice of a man who has just appeared in the world. A man emergent, a man in love, alive in the fluid instability of any category. —Mark Doty, from the Foreword