Free Read What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life by Mark Doty - QJQ
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 Whitmans bold new American voice and by his equally radical claims about body and soul and what it means to be a self. In What Is the Grass Doty?a poet aEffortlessly 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 Whitmans bold new American voice and by his equally radical claims about body and soul and what it means to be a self. 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 poets life and work.What is it then between us? Whitman asks. Dotys answer is to explore spaces tied to Whitmans life and spaces where he finds the poets ghost meditating on desire love and the mysterious wellsprings of the poets enduring work. How does a voice survive death? What Is the Grass is a conversation across time and space a study of the astonishment one poet finds in the accomplishment of another and an attempt to grasp Whitmans deeply hopeful vision of humanity.(less)
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