Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems

Mark Doty · 2008 CE · Poem · Modern / American · Contemporary

A selection of the poet's work from 1987 to 2008, with new poems, gathers elegies for a partner lost to AIDS, ecstatic descriptions of the natural world and the closer attention of later years. It is a retrospective volume and carries no single narrative. Admitted as the volume that won the 2008 National Book Award, with the granularity flagged.

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