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Reluctantly : autobiographical essays / Hayden Carruth.
Van Pelt Library PS3505.A77594 Z477 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carruth, Hayden, 1921-2008.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carruth, Hayden, 1921-2008.
- Carruth, Hayden.
- Poets, American--20th century--Biography.
- Poets, American.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 164 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Port Townsend, WA : Copper Canyon Press, [1998]
- Summary:
- Despite being among the most erudite poets of this century, Hayden Carruth has lived his life largely outside academia. This collection of stunning autobiographical essays chronicles a lifetime of wrestling with demons and muses, chronic depression, a suicide attempt, a passionate love of jazz and blues, and unflinching honesty.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Fragments of autobiography: first series
- Suicide
- Footnote to suicide
- Fragments of autobiography: second series.
- ISBN:
- 155659089X
- OCLC:
- 39085358
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