Fire to fire: new and selected poems

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.