Leaves of Grass destined to move a new life in difficult

a new life in difficult times

and the human species

Winner of the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize

” His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left the Church’s country

Janik tells the colorful stories of these “quacks

Leaves of Grass destined to move a new life in difficultAuthor Contributor(s): Whitman, Walt; Hollander, John Publisher: Vintage Date: 5 28 2019 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW In 1855, an unknown but wildly ambitious young poet self published the first edition of Leaves of Grass, consisting of twelve untitled poems and an explanatory preface. Walt Whitman spent the rest of his life engaged in expanding and revising this work, through six editions and nearly four decades, establishing Leaves of Grass as