What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life

By Mark Doty

Book Overview

Mark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitman's perennially new American voice, and by his equally radical claims about body and soul. In What Is the Grass, Doty effortlessly blends biography, criticism, and memoir to keep company with Whitman and his Leaves of Grass, tracing the resonances between his own experience and the legendary poet's life and work.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039354141X
• ISBN13: 9780393541410
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.2"