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In this book, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around Walt Whitman and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as he first encountered it--to explore why Whitman's epic "continues to inspire and sometimes daunt" him. The result is a personal reassessment and appre

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C. K. Williams (1936-2015) won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. He taught creative writing and translation at Princeton University.
Release date Australia
January 31st, 2017
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Pages
208
Audiences
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Dimensions
114x178x10
ISBN-13
9780691176109
Product ID
26031254

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