By Thomas Travisano
This is a biography of a poet I've never heard of before, though she has been known and respected from a young age, and her reputation has increased as she aged and further after her passing. Her childhood was not typical and neither was the life she lived as an adult. Her father died when she was only 8 months old, and her mother was committed to a mental health institution when she was five. She grew up with relatives and never felt she had a home of her own until much later in life. This book describes her travels and life in Europe, Key West, Brazil, and various places in the US, while weaving her poems into the context of the life she lived while writing them and the scenes in her life she was describing in them. [Non fiction; 422pp, including notes and index]
