Books like Fire to Fire by Mark Doty

A facsimile edition of Sylvia Plath’s posthumous collection *Ariel*, presenting the poems in the exact order and selection she left at her death, with manuscript pages and working drafts of the title poem.

A collection of Charles Bukowski's poems that captures his raw, unfiltered voice and the gritty spirit of Los Angeles, written from the 1940s until his death in 1994.

Fire Logic launches an epic fantasy saga set in the imaginary world of Shaftal, where newly forged kingdoms clash, Native peoples face colonization and genocide, and a diverse cast of LGBT2Q+ heroes must navigate war and political intrigue.

A Vance Memorial Hospital blaze leaves staff injured and a friendly firefighter, Lucia Vance, under investigation. Amid drama, a wildfire expert named Raphael Wright offers help—and sparks a romance—while the real arsonist’s motive remains unclear.

Mark Doty’s new poetry collection *Atlantis* gathers his mature, evocative voice into a cohesive work that echoes the lyrical power of his earlier winner, *My Alexandria*.

A powerful debut collection in which Phillip B. Williams uses precise, urban‑themed poems to confront racism, homophobia and the complexities of desire in African American gay lives.

Poetry. Braiding theoretic concerns with the ambivalences of sexed and raced identity.WANTING IN ARABIC attempts to traverse the fantasies of foundational loss and aggressive nostalgia in order to further a poetics of a conscious partiality of being, of generous struggle and comic rather than tragic misrecognition.

A comprehensive anthology of June Jordan’s poetry, spanning over six hundred pages of lyricism, elegiac verse, and vibrant vernacular, including unpublished “last poems” that showcase her powerful engagement with identity, activism, and human connection.

A vibrant collection of Judy Grahn’s poetry, blending newer verses with selections from her earlier works, embodying the spirit of social movements and celebrating love, community, earth, and spirit.

Carl Phillips’ sixth collection, Pastoral, weaves longing, desire, and spiritual longing into a contemplative exploration of the inner landscape, framed by pastoral tradition and lyrical rhythm.

When a runaway waitress leaves her lover and her Dalmatian dog to hit the highway, she journals her road trip in heartfelt letters while composing poetry that explores love, heartache, and madness.

Poet and memoirist Mark Doty ruminates on the importance of how we render the world through description.

What the Body Told is the second book of poetry from Rafael Campo, a practicing physician, a gay Cuban American, and winner of the National Poetry Series 1993 Open Competition. Exploring the themes begun in his first book, The Other Man Was Me, Campo extends the search for identity into new realms of fantasy and physicality. He travels inwardly to the most intimate spaces of the imagination where sexuality and gender collide and where life crosses into death. Whether facing a frenetic hospital emergency room to assess a patient critically ill with AIDS, or breathing in the quiet of his mother’s closet, Campo proposes with these poems an alternative means of healing and exposes the extent to which words themselves may be the most vital working parts of our bodies. The secret truths in What the Body Told, as the title implies, are already within each of us; in these vivid and provocative poems, Rafael Campo gives them a voice. Lost in the Hospital It’s not that I don’t like the hospital. Those small bouquets of flowers, pert and brave. The smell of antiseptic cleansers. The ill, so wistful in their rooms, so true. My friend, the one who’s dying, took me out To where the patients go to smoke, IV’s And oxygen tanks attached to them— A tiny patio for skeletons. We shared A cigaratte, which was delicious but Too brief. I held his hand; it felt Like someone’s keys. How beautiful it was, The sunlight pointing down at us, as if We were important, full of life, unbound. I wandered for a moment where his ribs Had made a space for me, and there, beside The thundering waterfall of is heart, I rubbed my eyes and thought “I’m lost.”

"Since 1968 Lewis Turco's Book of Forms has been a staple in the libraries of writers, teachers, poets, and others who care about the craft of poetry. Now Turco has expanded and updated his classic once again, adding many new forms, including the ghazal, rubliw, double dactyl, various Japanese forms other than the haiku and tanka, Clerihew, amphigory, backwoods boast, and quaternion. It now includes six in-depth prosodic essays and an entirely new discussion of the rules of scansion. The Elements of Poetry section has been reorganized into three genres: Dramatic Poetry, Lyric Poetry, and Narrative Poetry."--BOOK JACKET.

An art historian’s trip to Saint‑Paul‑de‑Vence turns into a suspenseful murder mystery when a key witness is found dead in the village fountain, forcing her and her husband into a dangerous amateur investigation.