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What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life

By Mark Doty
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By Mark Doty
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Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by Buzzfeed, Library Journal, The Millions, and The Rumpus


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, perennially 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 New Yorker, an...

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Literary CriticismLiterary BiographyPoetry - Literary CriticismAmerican LiteratureAmerican Literary BiographyAmerican Poetry - 19th Century - Literary CriticismAmerican Poets - Literary BiographyWhitman, Walt (1819-1892)->InfluencePoets, American->21st century->Biography