Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems by Mark Doty (English) Paperback Book

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Mark Doty's Fire to Fire collects the best of his seven books of poetry, along with a generous selection of new work.

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"Fire to Fire should solidify Doty's position as a star of contemporary American poetry. . . . The poems combine close attention to the fragile, contingent things of the world with the constant, almost unavoidable chance of transcendence." -- Publishers WeeklyA landmark collection of new and published works by one of our finest poets that is a testament to the clarity and thoughtful lyricism of his poems Fire to Fire collects the best works from seven books of poetry by Mark Doty, acclaimed poet and New York Times bestselling author of two memoirs, Firebird and Dog Years.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.

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Mark Doty's Fire to Fire collects the best of his seven books of poetry, along with a generous selection of new work. His signature style encompasses both the plainspoken and the artfully wrought, as one of contemporary American poetry's most lauded, recognizable voices speaks to the crises and possibilities of our time.

Author Biography

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.

Review

"FIRE TO FIRE should solidify Doty's position as a star of contemporary American poetry...The poems combine close attention to the fragile, contingent things of the world with the constant, almost unavoidable chance of transcendence." -- Publishers Weekly "Mark Doty still finds wonder in a world of confusion and hardships. Beauty is the object of worship in FIRE TO FIRE, this much needed book of new and selected older poems...The new poems speak from a passionate middle age...Doty takes us with him on his journeys from the everyday to the ecstatic." -- Craig Morgan Teicher, 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

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"...showcases Doty's abiding fondness for examining the human condition"

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Details ISBN0060752513 Author Distinguished Writer Mark Doty Short Title FIRE TO FIRE Language English ISBN-10 0060752513 ISBN-13 9780060752514 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 811.54 Year 2009 Residence Provincetown, MA, US Affiliation Rutgers University DOI 10.1604/9780060752514 Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2009-01-27 NZ Release Date 2009-01-27 US Release Date 2009-01-27 UK Release Date 2009-01-27 Pages 336 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc Publication Date 2009-01-27 Imprint HarperCollins Publishers Audience General Imprint US Harper Perennial Publisher US HarperCollins Subtitle New and Selected Poems We've got this

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