Sun Journal

‘Leaves of Grass’ Edward Weston’s photos illustrate Whitman’s epic poem

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PBS

Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman

Join host Elisa New to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth. In 1855 Walt Whitman declared “The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.” Join host Elisa New as ...
Cleveland.com

Fall into Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass,' and let poet C.K. Williams accompany you

Whitman decided to write his "book of new things" when he was a "mediocre journalist," Williams notes, a man of no particular promise. The poet set the type himself, self-published around 800 copies ...
Hyperallergic

Walt Whitman's Sensuality and Self-Promotion

Title page and frontispiece spread of the first edition of Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: [printed for the author by Andrew and Thomas Rome], 1855 (courtesy of the Grolier Club, ...
New Hampshire Union Leader

Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' was banned -- and cost him his federal job

Long before the current wave of book banning targeted titles including “The 1619 Project” and “Everywhere Babies,” Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” was banned from libraries across the United States.
Brandeis University

Other Writings and Publications

"Leaves of Grass," though his best-known work, was not the only form in which Whitman published his poems—nor were the poems, however famous, the only thing he wrote. Arranged here is a selection of ...
PBS

Leaves of Grass

For historians, the evolution of the book through different editions offers evidence of the author's shifting concerns. In fact, Leaves of Grass may be comparable to Rembrandt's dozens of ...
Untapped Cities

See a First Edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass at Morgan Library and Museum New Exhibit

Few great artists can truly capture the spirit of a time or place, but poet Walt Whitman does so masterfully in his writing. His poetry expresses the essence of a bustling and burgeoning 19th-century ...
Hyperallergic

When Edward Weston Took Photographs for Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass'

Although the book was a failure, Edward Weston considered his 1941 photographs for Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' as some of his best work. Edward Weston, “Mr. and Mrs. Fry of Burnet, Texas” (1941), ...
Sun Journal

‘Leaves of Grass’: Photographs by Edward Weston capture the essence of Walt Whitman’s epic poem The PMA exhibit is up through March 13

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The Forward

Containing Multitudes: Tim Blake Nelson’s ‘Leaves of Grass’

In “Leaves of Grass,” Walt Whitman transformed his life into a poetic portrait of America and all its vastness, diversity, and tension. More than 150 years later, writer-director Tim Blake Nelson does ...
The Boston Globe

‘Leaves of Grass’ by Walt Whitman

I know there are few words less redolent of Democracy than poetry. What is poetry, after all, but language at its highest pitch, words in their most mysterious register, men wearing pretentiously ...