Essential Whitman (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780060887926)

From the introduction by Galway Kinnell:

The poems of Walt Whitman meant little to me when I read them in high school and college. Luckily, when I was teaching at the University of Grenoble in my late twenties, I was required to give a course on Whitman. My experience of Leaves of Grass then was intense. . . . Soon I understood that poetry could be transcendent, hymn-like, a cosmic song, and yet remain idolatrously attached to the creatures and things of our world. . . . Once again, as when I first began writing, it seemed it might be possible to say everything in poetry.

Author: Walt Whitman
ISBN-10: 0060887923
ISBN-13: 9780060887926
Publisher: Ecco Press
Language: English
Published: 03/14/2006
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.00h x 4.40w x 0.60d