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"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning."
- Sir Winston Churchill
(1874 - 1965)
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ZIN Product Number: 10007174
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 0060931973
Release Date: Jan 9, 2000
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
In Firebird, Mark Doty tells the story of a ten-year-old in a top hat, cane, and red chiffon scarf, interrupted while belting out Judy Garland's "Get Happy" by his alarmed mother at the bedroom door, exclaiming, "Son, you're a boy!"
Firebird presents us with a heroic little boy who has quite enough worries without discovering that his dawning sexuality is the Wrong One. A self-confessed "chubby smart bookish sissy with glasses and a Southern accent," Doty grew up on the move, the family following his father's engineering work across America -- from Tennessee to Arizona, Florida to California. A lyrical, heartbreaking comedy of one family's dissolution through the corrosive powers of alcohol, sorrow, and thwarted desire, Firebird is also a wry evocation of childhood's pleasures and terrors, a comic tour of American suburban life, and a testament to the transformative power of art.
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A Superb Sumptuous Feast of Language
-- Craig, a college administrator from CT, September 21, 2000
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
The arrival of a great poet is magical. The world seems exaspered, nothing new is anticipated or deemed possible; suddenly, a new voice, new music, new wisdom, a new complex personality; the human is redefined and the exaspered workd comes to life again, is alive with possibilities. Mark Doty is a great poet, and Firebird describes how a great poet was formed. It is one of the most beautiful and moving testaments for the power of art I've read, and it's an exploration of the power and processes of memory as well brash as the title suggests, this is a story of a regeneration, of resurrection. It's as vivid, beautiful, endlessly delightful and wonderfully, amazingly generous as his poems are. Here is a poet whose words are, in every sense, a benediction. —Tony Kushner
Mark Doty has written a memoir about his own childhood that is so perfectly remembered and beautifully described that it's based about one particular unhappy childhood, and all childhoods, happy or unhappy.... It's also a story that is heartbreaking and funny.... and like nothing I've ever read before.
— Elizabeth McCracken, author of The Giant House —Elizabeth McCracken
| |  | | | | Prelude: Perspective Box | 1 | | Part 1 | | Rainbow Girls | 11 | | A Book of Archaeology | 27 | | Beast from the Year 5000 | 45 | | Mikey | 55 | | Firebird | 63 | | Seventy-six Trombones | 83 | | Part 2 | | Guest from Nowhere | 105 | | Valley of the Moon | 117 | | Samson in the Temple | 137 | | Wear Your Love Like Heaven | 149 | | Sorrowful Mother | 171 | | Fanfare & Finale: Firebird | 179 | | Acknowledgments | 199 |
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