內容簡介
Each chapter of this inventive consideration of American
culture evokes an actual meeting between American writers and
artists, from Henry James and Mathew Brady, to Mark Twain and
Ulysses S. Grant, to Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore, to Norman
Mailer and Robert Lowell. The accumulation of these pairings draws
the reader into the mysterious process by which creativity has been
sparked and passed on, from the Civil War through the civil rights
movement.
culture evokes an actual meeting between American writers and
artists, from Henry James and Mathew Brady, to Mark Twain and
Ulysses S. Grant, to Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore, to Norman
Mailer and Robert Lowell. The accumulation of these pairings draws
the reader into the mysterious process by which creativity has been
sparked and passed on, from the Civil War through the civil rights
movement.