Live Oak, with Moss Dress & Hair our narrator -- a doctoral

our narrator -- a doctoral student in medieval studies -- leads us through the bathrooms and back rooms of clubs and raves as he explores the sex

To piece together the clues of this high-stakes mystery

and celebrates the micro-revolts of those on the outskirts

the high school teacher

[A] keen portrait of 1980s New York

Live Oak, with Moss Dress & Hair our narrator -- a doctoralAs he was turning forty, Walt Whitman wrote twelve poems in a small handmade book he entitled "Live Oak, With Moss." The poems were intensely private reflections on his attraction to and affection for other men. They were also Whitman's most adventurous explorations of the theme of same sex love, composed decades before the word "homosexual" came into use. This revolutionary, extraordinarily beautiful and passionate cluster of poems was never