What is the Grass

Informationen zum Autor Mark Doty is the author of more than ten volumes of poetry and three memoirs. His many honours include the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, and, in the UK, the T. S. Eliot Prize. He is a professor at Rutgers University and lives in New York City. Klappentext In What Is the Grass, Doty - a poet, a lover of men, a New Yorker, and an American - keeps company with Whitman and his mutable, landmark work, Leaves of Grass, tracing the resonances between his own experience and the legendary poet's life and work. What is it, then, between us? Whitman asks. Zusammenfassung In What Is the Grass, Doty – a poet, a lover of men, a New Yorker, and an American – keeps company with Whitman and his mutable, landmark work, Leaves of Grass, tracing the resonances between his own experience and the legendary poet’s life and work. What is it, then, between us? Whitman asks.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Doty
• Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781787332430
• ISBN: 978-1-78733-243-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 222 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Memoirs, POETRY / American / General, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Biography: writers, Literary studies: poetry and poets