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With Walt Whitman, Himself: In the Nineteenth Century, in America

With Walt Whitman, Himself: In the Nineteenth Century, in America - Hardcover

by Jean Huets
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jean Huets, Walt WhitmanTheme:Chronological Period/1851-1899, Topical/Civil WarPublish date:11/20/2018Pages:196
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Circling RiversISBN-13:9781939530080ISBN-10:1939530083UPC:9781939530080Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Historical, PoetrySize:11.00 x 8.50 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.908Product ID:SCVM2AEFGV

With Walt Whitman, Himself immerses you in the life and times of the poet called "America's bard," with over 300 period images and text that includes extensive quotes by Walt Whitman and his family and friends (and enemies). Explore the fascinating roots of his great work: a family harrowed by alcoholism and mental illness; the bloody Civil War; burgeoning, brawling Manhattan and Brooklyn; literary allies and rivals; and his beloved America, racked by disunion even while racing westward.

"A true Whitmanian feast--for the intellect as well as for the eyes.... Illustrations of Whitman's places, friends, family, disciples, contemporaries--his cities and his rural retreats. The descriptions of his life and times are concise and smart. The book keeps opening up to new facets of Whitman, his work, and his era." -- Ed Folsom, editor of Walt Whitman Quarterly Review and Co-Director of The Walt Whitman Archive

"With Walt Whitman, Himself is perfectly titled for to read of him so closely is to feel his eyes upon you, to sense his company as real as your own. Jean Huets has made a book of marvels and I can't put it down." -- Steve Scafidi, recipient of Miller Williams Prize and Library of Virginia Literary Award for Poetry

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Circling RiversISBN-13:9781939530080ISBN-10:1939530083UPC:9781939530080Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Historical, PoetrySize:11.00 x 8.50 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.908Product ID:SCVM2AEFGV
Huets, Jean: - Jean Huets is author of With Walt Whitman, Himself, acclaimed as "a book of marvels" by poet Steve Scafidi and "a true Whitmanian feast" by scholar Ed Folsom. Her writing is in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, The Millions, Ron Slate's On the Seawall, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, North American Review, and Civil War Monitor. She is co-author, with Stuart R. Kaplan, of The Encyclopedia of Tarot and author of The Cosmic Tarot book, based on the visionary art of Norbert Loesche, and of The Bones You Have Cast Down, a novel set in Renaissance Italy and inspired by the true story of the Popess tarot card. She co-founded Circling Rivers, which publishes literary nonfiction and poetry. Visit her at jeanhuets.comWhitman, Walt: - Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is called "America's bard" for his inclusive and ground-breaking poetry, collected in Leaves of Grass. He lived in, recorded in prose and poetry, and relished the tempestuous times of nineteenth-century United States. A few of his most well-known works are "I Sing the Body Electric," "Song of Myself," and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed."
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