What is the grass : Walt Whitman in my life / Mark Doty.

"Effortlessly blending biography, criticism, and memoir, National Book Award-winning poet and best- selling memoirist Mark Doty explores his personal quest for Walt Whitman. Mark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitman's bold, new American voice, and by his equally radical claims about body and...

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Main Author: Doty, Mark (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2020]
Edition:First edition.
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Physical Description:viii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Preface: apparition -- The first source. On the extremest verge ; Nothing that has ceased to arrive ; Every atom ; The elderhand ; Luckier -- The second source. The unwriteable ; (Is it night? Are we here alone?) ; Buds folded beneath speech ; Done with the compass ; The old old poem Walt ; Bijou ; Insatiable ; A loving bedfellow -- The third source. I loved well those cities -- The fourth source. Stucco'd with quadrupeds and birds all over -- The fifth source. Demon or bird ; The strong and delicious word ; What is it then between us?. 
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