The Virgin of Bennington

Publisher Marketing: 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 naive 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"" Review Citations: Lambda Book Report 06/01/2002 pg. 31 (EAN 9781573229135, Paperback) Library Journal 10/15/2001 (EAN 9781587884221, Analog Audio Cassette) Publishers Weekly 07/02/2001 (EAN 9781587884214, Analog Audio Cassette) BookPage 05/01/2001 pg. 30 (EAN 9781587884238, Analog Audio Cassette) Library Journal Prepub Alert 12/01/2000 pg. 100 (EAN 9781573221795, Hardcover) Booklist 02/01/2001 pg. 1019 (EAN 9781573221795, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2001 pg. 169 (EAN 9781573221795, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 04/02/2001 pg. 52 (EAN 9781573221795, Hardcover) Library Journal 03/15/2001 pg. 90 (EAN 9781573221795, Hardcover) BookPage 05/01/2001 pg. 30 (EAN 9781573221795, Hardcover) Commonweal 05/18/2001 pg. 24 (EAN 9781573221795, Hardcover) New York Times 05/27/2001 pg. 10 (EAN 9781573221795, Hardcover) Christian Century 05/23/2001 pg. 40 (EAN 9781573221795, Hardcover) Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2001 pg. 236 (EAN 9781573221795, Hardcover) Library Journal 12/20/2000 (EAN 9781573221795, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Norris, Kathleen Kathleen Norris is the author of two books of poetry, Falling Off (1971) and The Middle of the World (1981) and has received awards from the Guggenheim and Bush foundations. She lives in Lemmon, South Dakota, with her husband. Contributor Bio:  Burr, Sandra Burr is a freelance voiceover talent.