Barbara Sjoholm arrived in London in the winter of 1970 at the age of twenty. Like countless young Americans in that tumultuous time, she wanted to leave a country at war and explore Europe; a small inheritance from her grandmother gave her the opportunity. Over the next three years, she lived in Barcelona, hitchhiked around Spain, and studied at the University of Granada. She managed a souvenir shop in the Norwegian mountains and worked as a dishwasher...

Explores the mind and vision of the controversial American poet who almost singlehandedly brought about the twentieth-century revolution in poetry known as modernism.