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It gathers a major body of sensuous, emotionally exact lyric poetry.
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Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems
Mark Doty2008 selection · Poetry
Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems
New and selected poems consider beauty, mortality, desire, grief, animals, and the observed world.
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You value vivid imagery and candid meditations on loss.
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