The audiobook her devoted listeners have been waiting for. At last, New
York Times betselling author Kathleen Norris's first continuous
narrative...a story of sex, drugs, and poetry.
After spending her high school years in Hawaii, Kathleen Norris was
woefully unprepared for Bennington College in the 1960s, with its
culture of drugs, sex, and bohemianism. But it was also at Bennington
that she discovered her great love of poetry, which carried her to New
York City at a time when a new generation of poets was emerging and
shaking up the establishment.
Working at the Academy of American Poets for her beloved mentor,
Elizabeth Kray, and hanging out at clubs with Andy Warhol's crowd at
night, Norris found herself immersed in an exciting and emotionally
turbulent new world. Her memoir of that time--of her friendships and
encounters with poets, including Jim Carroll, Denise Levertov, Gerard
Malanga, Erica Jong, James Merrill, Stanley Kunitz, and James Wright--is
an inspiring tribute to poetry and a stunning evocation of time and
place. Her tenuous balancing act on the bridge between naïve
experimentation and indirection and the more focused responsibilities of
adulthood, makes for a dramatic and illuminating account of
coming-of-age at a tumultuous moment in our history.
"Through three bestselling books published over the past six years,
Kathleen Norris has captured [readers'] hearts and fed their souls."
--Common Boundary
