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What is the Grass (Hardcover)
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What is the Grass (Hardcover)
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List price R531
Loot Price R433
Discovery Miles 4 330
You Save R98 (18%)
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Mark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitman's 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
poet's life and work. What is it, then, between us? Whitman asks.
Doty's answer is to explore spaces tied to Whitman's life and
spaces where he finds the poet's ghost, meditating on desire, love,
and the mysterious wellsprings of the poet's 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 Whitman's
deeply hopeful vision of humanity.
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