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Copyright © 2020 by Mark Doty
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Pages 22–23: Frontispiece and title page for the first edition of Leaves of Grass (Library of Congress). Courtesy GPA Photo Archive.
Page 34: Daguerreotype Portrait of Walt Whitman, 1853 from The New York Public Library.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Names: Doty, Mark, author.
Title: What is the grass : Walt Whitman in my life / Mark Doty.
Description: First edition. | New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2020]
Identifiers: LCCN 2019044569 | ISBN 9780393070224 (hardcover) |
ISBN 9781324006053 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Doty, Mark. | Poets, American—20th century—Biography. | Whitman, Walt, 1819–1892—Influence. | Whitman, Walt, 1819–1892—Appreciation.
Classification: LCC PS3554.O798 Z46 2020 | DDC 811/.54 [B]—dc23
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