
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...

The acclaimed poet and author of Heaven's Coast spins a dark, heartbreaking comedy of childhood, a family's collapse, and the consolations of a life of art. Print features.

"A beautifully written, hallucinatorily evocative memoir of growing up gay in baby-boom America." -- Newsweek In his powerful autobiography, Firebird, Mark Doty tells the story of a ten-year-old in a top hat, cane, and red chiffon scarf, interrupted...

