"At a time when much poetry is growing ever narrower and more self-referential, Mark Jarman is a poet who still dares to ask the largest questions."---Barbara Hoffert, National Book Critics Circle Journal<BR><BR>"Jarman's goal is to create an ethics of memory, a system that will allow the transcendent moment to be relived, but which still admits the cheapness and vulgarity of such moments. This clear-headed realism is perhaps the most compelling feature of Jarman's writing, and the source of its authority and elegance."---David Wojahn, The Missouri Review<BR><BR>"Jarman is a poet in whose work intelligence is as important, obvious, and strong as emotion."---Booklist<BR><BR>"In Questions for Ecclesiastes, Mark Jarman takes on the idea of holiness in an unholy world, of spiritual realities in secular America."---Charles Simic. The Nation<BR><BR>"Jarman's poetry is God-haunted. He writes as an unorthodox but essentially Christian poet who embraces paradox and treats contradiction, to use Simone Weil's phrase, as a lever for transcendence."---Edward Hirsch, The Washington Post<BR><BR>Bone Fires: New and Selected Poems by Mark Jarman, collects work from over thirty years and charts his spiritual development as he grows from a poet of childhood and nostalgia to a poet of adulthood and the struggle of faith. The section of new poems includes work published in such distinguished journals as American Poetry Review, Georgia Review, The New Republic, and Poetry, and in the yearly anthology Best American Poetry. As Library Journal noted in its recent estimation of Epistles, "While most of Jarman's poems explore faith in its many manifestations, there is something here transcendent that speaks to everyone. Highly recommended." Bone Fires is a landmark collection by one of our nation's most distinguished poets.