What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life Format:Hardcover In so doing

In so doing

The work gives a fascinating picture of the childhood experiences of the anonymous author and is full of sensitive and often moving observations on the plights of sexual ambiguity in childhood

it is a powerful letter of love from a father to a son that holds lasting insight for us all

Then they met Al Gerhardstein

and emotional upheavals of adolescence--particularly high school--complicated by the unique challenges of being a transgender teen

What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life Format:Hardcover In so doingMark 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, and an American keeps company with Whitman and his 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. In search of an answer, Doty