Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems Book

I hadn't read the last three Doty books before checking this out (Source, School of the Arts, and new poems). A lot of his poems have similar occasions and moves, but reading his more recent work alongside the very few poems reprinted from his books before My Alexandria, you can see what a sensitive instrument he's made of his syntax and stanza over the years. Treating the same subjects many times has spurred as much depth and invention as repetition. There's also more straying from radiance in the last two volumes, including a great poem about narrative-- he's in a taxi for a two hour ride to the airport in Mexico in extreme heat, and the driver starts telling him the plots of the eight novels he's written. I saw Doty read about ten years ago; his poems always bring back his voice for me.