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From Publishers Weekly Signature_Reviewed by_ Reginald ShepherdDoty's first book, Turtle, Swan , appeared in 1987. He has published six books of poetry and four memoirs, all excellent, since. This hefty selection from his seven collections, plus a generous sheaf of new poems, should solidify his position as a star of contemporary American poetry. Doty's poetic career really took off with My Alexandria (1993), his third book, which made his reputation. Fire to Fire contains only two poems from his first two books—Adonis Theatre, about an old movie palace turned gay porno theater, and The Death of Antinous, about the Roman emperor Hadrian's lover's afterlife in statuary, both of which are meditations on representation, absence and desire. Desire, and its capacity to transform and transfigure, is one of Doty's main themes. Enough desire (so often mixed, as T.S. Eliot wrote, with memory) can make us as beautiful as the objects of our desire. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Doty has never eschewed beauty. Indeed, beauty, its unlikely, often unexpected, yet constant recurrence and its elusive fleetingness, is central, as demonstrated by several new poems titled Theory of Beauty,

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Author

Doty, Mark

Publisher

Harper Perennial

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780060752477

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Poetry

Rating

4.14 / 5 (621 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14