Books Details
Author : Walt Whitman Pages : 192 pages Publisher : Harry N. Abrams Language
: ISBN-10 : 1419734059 ISBN-13 : 9781419734052
Books Descriptions
As he was turning forty, Walt Whitman wrote twelve poems in a small
handmade book he entitled ?Live Oak, With Moss.? The poems were intensely
private reflections on his attraction to and affection for other men. They were
also Whitman?s most adventurous explorations of the theme of same-sex love,
composed decades before the word ?homosexual? came into use. This
revolutionary, extraordinarily beautiful and passionate cluster of poems was
never published by Whitman and has remained unknown to the general
public?until now. New York Times bestselling and Caldecott Award?winning
illustrator Brian Selznick offers a provocative visual narrative of ?Live Oak, With
Moss,? and Whitman scholar Karen Karbiener reconstructs the story of the
poetic cluster?s creation and destruction. Walt Whitman?s reassembled,
reinterpreted Live Oak, With Moss serves as a source of inspiration and a cause
for celebration.? ?
