Song of Myself, Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman's visionary manifesto, visually reimagined. Carefully culled to about one third of its original length, this version provides the perfect introduction to Whitman's most expansive and audacious poem. Combined with 27 illustrations, the book explores Whitman's own exuberant, witty, playful, transcendent theory of everything, beginning with "a spear of summer grass." Only moderately well-recognized in his time, Whitman is now regarded as the first and possibly greatest of American poets. As Harold Bloom said, "Walt Whitman is your imaginative father and mother, even if, like myself, you have never composed a line of verse." This artful pocket edition is illustrated by Obvious State co-founder, Evan Robertson and is printed in the United States on beautiful premium paper. It makes a great gift for literature and art lovers alike. It is based on the final version of the poem, which Whitman edited and tweaked throughout his life. FUN FACTLeaves of Grass was a play on words: Leav