Fire To Fire : New And Selected Poems

“Doty is always searching for beauty in a world that can be tragic or simply mundane.”

“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.”

“Mark Doty still finds wonder in a world of confusion and hardships...a much-needed book of new and selected older poems by Doty.”

“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.”

“[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...”

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

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

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

“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.”

Distributor: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date: 03-11-2008
Pages: 336
Measurements: 9in X 6.125in X 1.18333in X 20.96oz