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Firebird: A Memoir (Reprint Edition) by Mark Doty Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2000 ISBN-10: 0-06-093197-3 / 0060931973 ISBN-13: 978-0-06-093197-1 / 9780060931971 "Childhood's work is to see what lies beneath," Mark Doty writes in his memoir, Firebird. And adulthood's work, he suggests, is to make sense of what the child-self once saw. Doty, a poet, does this remarkably well, capturing the peculiar talismans of youth--"little cars of fragrant plastic whos |