Mark Doty, internationally acclaimed poet and memoirist will read from his newest work: What is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life. The new work combines biography, literary criticism and memoir to trace the resonances between Whitman’s life and work, and Doty’s.
Andrew Solomon praises the work: “Quick-witted, slyly erotic, and sometimes ecstatic, this book explores Mark Doty’s relationship with Walt Whitman, or with the idea of Walt Whitman. It is intimate in its reality and in all that it imagines, and it captures with splendid lyricism the author’s generous obsession with his forebear. Mark Doty has written a literate and lovely volume.”
Mark Doty’s previous works include Deep Lane, Dog Years, My Alexandria and Heaven’s Coast among other works.
