
Fire to Fire
New and Selected Poems
Hardcover
Other Editions of This Title:
Paperback (1/27/2009)
Description
Mark Doty's Fire to Fire collects the best of Mark Doty's seven books of poetry, along with a generous selection of new work. Doty's subjects—our mortal situation, the evanescent beauty of the world, desire's transformative power, and art's ability to give shape to human lives—echo and develop across twenty years of poems. His signature style encompasses both the plainspoken and the artfully wrought; here one of contemporary American poetry's most lauded, recognizable voices speaks to the crises and possibilities of our times.
Praise For Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems…
— Publishers Weekly (Boxed Signature Review by Reginald Shepherd)
“Mark Doty still finds wonder in a world of confusion and hardships...a much-needed book of new and selected older poems by Doty.”
— Time Out New York
“[Doty] uses language as a way to highlight a moment, elevate it, and unearth hidden depth and meaning...Striking imagery and a powerful imagination are two of his best tools...”
— Christian Science Monitor
“Doty is always searching for beauty in a world that can be tragic or simply mundane.”
— Newsday
“...showcases Doty’s abiding fondness for examining the human condition”
— Washington Post Book World
“Doty displays a gift for interweaving arresting image with tender narrative.”
— Slate
“Doty’s facility with his chosen form...is so natural that the craft in his work is all but invisible; he makes the damnably difficult look deceptively simple.”
— Booklist
“If words this moving do not constitute great poetry, I’d like to know what does.”
— Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“Doty is terrifically precise as he inspects time’s wreckage…The rhythm of his lines, its syntactical genius, propels us down the page, stopping time when necessary, making the familiar…exotic.”
— Dallas Morning News
Harper, 9780060752477, 336pp.
Publication Date: March 11, 2008
About the Author
Mark Doty's books of poetry and nonfiction prose have been honored with numerous distinctions, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and, in the United Kingdom, the T. S. Eliot Prize. In 2008, he won the National Book Award for Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems. He is a professor at the University of Houston, and he lives in New York City.