Description
Book SynopsisPresents a groundbreaking account of the creative story behind America's most celebrated collection of poems.
Collage of Myself details Walt Whitman's discovery of a remarkable new creative process that allowed him to transform a diverse array of texts into poems such as ""Song of Myself"" and ""The Sleepers"".
Trade Review"This is an important study, one requiring that the reader rethink a number of commonly held assumptions about Whitman and his
Leaves of Grass ."—D. D. Kummings,
Choice"Miller's book is as valuable a publication on Whitman’s poetry as any to have appeared for some time."—M. Wynn Thomas,
Walt Whitman Quarterly ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations 000
Acknowledgments 000
Introduction 000
List of Abbreviations 000
1. How Whitman Used His Early Notebooks 000
2. Packing and Unpacking the First Leaves of Grass 000
3. Kosmos Poets and Spinal Ideas 000
4. Poems of Materials 000
5. Whitman after Collage / Collage after Whitman 000
Notes 000
Bibliography 000
Index 000
