Specimen Days and Collect

by Walt Whitman

Overview

Diaries, notes and essays dealing with Whitman's ancestry, boyhood, Civil War experiences, nature, literary subjects and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781473310292
Publisher:	Burman Press
Publication date:	07/16/2013
Pages:	600
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.33(d)

About the Author

WALT WHITMAN (1819–1892), perhaps the most influential poet in American history, was born on Long Island but raised in Brooklyn, New York. Serving at various times as a printer’s devil, journeyman compositor, itinerant schoolteacher, newspaper editor, and unofficial nurse to Northern and Southern soldiers during the Civil War, he acquired a broad view of American life, central to his identity as a poet. His “American epic” Leaves of Grass—though initially controversial for its frank depiction of sexuality—earned him the title of the father of free verse. He continued to edit and reprint Leaves of Grass up until his death, in addition to writing new works of poetry and Democratic Vistas, a work of comparative politics.

LESLIE JAMISON is the author of an essay collection, The Empathy Exams, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. Her first novel, The Gin Closet, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction; and her essays and stories have been published in numerous publications, including Harper’s, The Oxford American, A Public Space, and The Believer.

Editorial Reviews

**** Reprint of the original edition (1882 & 1883). The opulent Godine reprint of 1971--now out of print--is cited in BCL3. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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