Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems

by Mark Doty

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780061856631
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	10/13/2009
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	322,388
File size:	396 KB

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.

Editorial Reviews

"Pages falling into sleep and dust,/ dust and sleep, burning so slowly/ you wouldn't even know there was a fire." Yet every one of the poems here is ablaze, each illuminating its subject and fixing it in our minds before it disappears. This book won the National Book Award for the already trophy-laden Doty. (LJ4/1/08)

—Barbara Hoffert

Library Journal

...showcases Doty’s abiding fondness for examining the human condition

Washington Post Book World

If words this moving do not constitute great poetry, I’d like to know what does.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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

Doty displays a gift for interweaving arresting image with tender narrative.

Slate

[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

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 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