Synopses & Reviews
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.
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“If words this moving do not constitute great poetry, Id like to know what does.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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“FIRE TO FIRE should solidify Dotys 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 (Boxed Signature Review by Reginald Shepherd)
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“[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
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“Doty is always searching for beauty in a world that can be tragic or simply mundane.” Newsday
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“Dotys 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
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“Doty displays a gift for interweaving arresting image with tender narrative.” Slate
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“...showcases Dotys abiding fondness for examining the human condition” Washington Post Book World
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“Doty is terrifically precise as he inspects times 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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“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
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Ad in Poets and Writers (with Dog Years)
Promote at Modern Language Association conference
--Washington Post Book World
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Ad in Poets and Writers (with Dog Years)
Promote at Modern Language Association conference
--Christian Science Monitor
Synopsis
Mark Doty's Fire to Firecollects 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.
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.