{"product_id":"leaves-of-grass","title":"Leaves of Grass","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Whitman, Walt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Signet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cream\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition:\u003c\/b\u003e Reprint\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e mass_market\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 485\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 05-11-2013\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description      \u003cbr\u003e\nRalph Waldo Emerson issued a call for a great poet to capture and immortalize the unique American experience. In 1855, an answer came with Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.\u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n Today, this masterful collection remains not only a seminal event in American literature but also the incomparable achievement of one of America’s greatest poets—an exuberant, passionate man who loved his country and wrote of it as no other has ever done. Walt Whitman was a singer, thinker, visionary, and citizen extraordinaire. Thoreau called Whitman “probably the greatest democrat that ever lived,” and Emerson judged\u003cbr\u003e\nLeaves of Grass as “the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed.”\u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe text presented here is that of the “Deathbed” or ninth edition of Leaves of Grass, published in 1892. The content and grouping of poems is the version authorized by Whitman himself for the final and complete edition of his masterpiece.\u003cbr\u003e\n      Review      \u003cbr\u003e\n“Whitman's best poems have that permanent quality of being freshly painted, of not being dulled by the varnish of the years.”—Malcolm Cowley\u003cbr\u003e\n      About the Author      \u003cbr\u003e\nIn 1855,\u003cbr\u003e\nWalt Whitman (1819–92) published his great tribute to America, the volume of poems that was to become his masterpiece,\u003cbr\u003e\nLeaves of Grass. Although praised by Emerson, the work met with a disappointing reception, and Whitman went on to become a war correspondent and government clerk, devoting much of his time to caring for the sick and wounded in hospitals around Washington. His reactions to and interpretations of the struggle for freedom are to be found in\u003cbr\u003e\nDrum-Taps and the Civil War section of\u003cbr\u003e\nSpecimen Days.\u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nBilly Collins has published nine volumes of poetry, most recently\u003cbr\u003e\nHoroscopes of the Dead. He is also the editor of\u003cbr\u003e\nPoetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry.  He served as United States poet laureate from 2001 to 2003 and was New York State poet laureate from 2004 to 2006.  He is a Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College (CUNY) and the Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute in Florida.\u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nPeter Davison was the author of ten books of verse, culminating in\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Poems of Peter Davison, 1957–1995, before his eleventh and final collection,\u003cbr\u003e\nBreathing Room. Davison also wrote a memoir,\u003cbr\u003e\nHalf Remembered: A Personal History; a book of criticism,\u003cbr\u003e\nOne of the Dangerous Trades: Essays on the Work and Workings of Poetry; and a literary chronicle,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Fading Smile: Poets in Boston from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath, 1955–1960. He was also poetry editor of\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Atlantic Monthly.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nElisabeth Panttaja Brink teaches writing in the Woods College of Advancing Studies at Boston College.  She has a PhD in American Literature and is the author of scholarly essays, short stories, and two novels,\u003cbr\u003e\nSave Your Own and (as Elisabeth Elo)\u003cbr\u003e\nNorth of Boston.\u003cbr\u003e\n      Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.      \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e\nWalt Whitman’s poetry collapses boundaries: between past, present, and future; between countries, cities, and regions of the world; between races, ethnicities, classes, and occupations; between the young and old, the foolish and wise, the public and private realms. He breaks down all the categories we use to tell us who, when, where, and what we are, the terms we reflexively rely on to structure our everyday lives. He even blurs usually sacrosanct distinctions between body and soul, and man and God. In so doing, he prepares us for the perception of a single, universal truth and for our subsequent transformation into the kind of people we need to be.\u003cbr\u003e\nIn his sweeping impulse to erase difference and approach unity, Whitman’s verse can be considered the poetic expression of the principles of the Transcendental movement that flourished in the northeast in the late 1820s and 1830s. 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