MARC details
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02579cam a2200301 i 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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18423235 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20150705214656.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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141231s2015 nyua b 001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2014050291 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781583674758 (hbk.) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1583674756 (hbk.) |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)876883419 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Modifying agency |
FlFlSLA |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
pcc |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
PS3231 |
| Item number |
.M186 2015 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
811/.3 |
| Edition number |
23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Marsh, John, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1975- |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
In Walt We Trust : |
| Remainder of title |
how a queer socialist poet can save America from itself / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
John Marsh. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Monthly Review Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
[2015] |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
248 p. : |
| Other physical details |
ill. ; |
| Dimensions |
22 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"Life in the United States today is shot through with uncertainty: about our jobs, our mortgaged houses, our retirement accounts, our health, our marriages, and the future that awaits our children. For many, our lives, public and private, have come to feel like the discomfort and unease you experience the day or two before you get really sick. Our life is a scratchy throat. John Marsh offers an unlikely remedy for this widespread malaise: the poetry of Walt Whitman. Mired in personal and political depression, Marsh turned to Whitman--and it saved his life. In Walt We Trust: How a Queer Socialist Poet Can Save America from Itself is a book about how Walt Whitman can save America's life, too. Marsh identifies four sources for our contemporary malaise (death, money, sex, democracy) and then looks to a particular Whitman poem for relief from it. He makes plain what, exactly, Whitman wrote and what he believed by showing how they emerged from Whitman's life and times, and by recreating the places and incidents (crossing Brooklyn ferry, visiting wounded soldiers in hospitals) that inspired Whitman to write the poems. Whitman, Marsh argues, can show us how to die, how to accept and even celebrate our (relatively speaking) imminent death. Just as important, though, he can show us how to live: how to have better sex, what to do about money, and, best of all, how to survive our fetid democracy without coming away stinking ourselves. The result is a mix of biography, literary criticism, manifesto, and a kind of self-help you're unlikely to encounter anywhere else."--Provided by publisher. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Whitman, Walt, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1819-1892 |
| General subdivision |
Appreciation. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Whitman, Walt, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1819-1892 |
| General subdivision |
Influence. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Conduct of life in literature. |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
| Item type |
Book |
