Lost Family: A Memoir

Alongside tales of love, friends and mentors, intolerance, AIDS, and the struggle for equality, Bartons collectionhis first in eight yearsexplores how being gay rewrites and expands ones sense of lineage, both inherited and chosen. A book of penetrating self-awareness and humility, marked by powerful image-making, Lost Family: A Memoir is a profound test of poetrys ability to give coherence to life. It is also a celebration of the sonnet form, that finely made reliquary that permits memory to take shape. See more