The Virgin of Bennington
Shy and sheltered as a young woman, Kathleen Norris wasn't prepared for the sex, drugs, and bohemianism of Bennington College in the late 1960s-and when she moved to New York City after graduation, it was a case of out of the frying pan and into the fire. In this chronicle, Norris remembers the education she received, both formal and fortuitous; the influence of her mentor Betty Kray, who shunned the spotlight while serving as a guiding force in the poetry world of the late 20th century; her encounters with such figures as James Merrill, Jim Carroll, Denise Levertov, Stanley Kunitz, Patti Smith, and Erica Jong; and her eventual decision to le…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4406-2341-7
- EAN: 9781440623417
- Produktnummer: 17672899
- Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 302 KB
Über den Autor
Kathleen Norris is the award-winning, bestselling author of Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith; The Cloister Walk; and Dakota: A Spiritual Geography. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, in various anthologies, and in her own three volumes of poetry. She divides her time between South Dakota and Hawaii.
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