Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Great Regulars: Desire can turn into a kind of intimacy

within memory's compression chamber, and few American writers have investigated this transformation like Mark Doty, whose latest collection, Fire to Fire, claimed the 2008 National Book Award for poetry earlier this month.

Even the new poems in this volume of selected work feel hauled up from a vast, mysterious deep.

from John Freeman: The Dallas Morning News: 'Fire to Fire' by Mark Doty: Poems with power to resurrect the past

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