SOURCE: Jarraway, David R. “‘Creatures of the Rainbow’: Wallace Stevens, Mark Doty, and the Poetics of Androgyny.” Mosaic 30, no. 3 (September 1997): 169-83.
In the following essay, the author compares the “poetics of androgyny” in the works of Doty and Wallace Stevens. The discourse of androgyny, according to the author, “bespeaks a uniquely gendered space fraught with relaxations of the known,” and he claims the poetry of Stevens and his admirer Doty both exemplify an attentiveness to “living in difference.”
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