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Loading... Somewhere Waiting: Song of Myself (Obvious State Classics Collection)by Walt Whitman
None No current Talk conversations about this book.  wanderlustlover | Dec 26, 2022 |   I loved this little collection, which I read back in February, but only just now found the right place for locating it on Goodreads. This was a delightful new piece with a set for Valentines' Day which I bought myself & adored immensely! (  ) wanderlustlover | Dec 26, 2022 | no reviews | add a review
Walt Whitman's visionary manifesto, visually reimagined Carefully culled to about one third of its original length, this version provides the perfect introduction to Whitman's most expansive and audacious poem. Combined with 27 illustrations, the book explores Whitman's own exuberant, witty, playful, transcendent theory of everything, beginning with "a spear of summer grass." Only moderately well-recognized in his time, Whitman is now regarded as the first and possibly greatest of American poets. As Harold Bloom said, "Walt Whitman is your imaginative father and mother, even if, like myself, you have never composed a line of verse." Printed on beautiful matte paper, this petite gift book is perfect for poetry and art lovers alike.The Obvious State Classics Collection is an evolving series of visually reimagined beloved works that speaks to contemporary readers. The pocket-sized, collectable editions feature the selected works of celebrated authors such as T. S. Eliot, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Sara Teasdale, and Henry David Thoreau. No library descriptions found. |
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I have a deep and endless love for the multi-published Leaves of Grass, since laying down in my backyard with the book and connecting to it so much deeper than I expected from a class assignment.
I have gone on to have endless love for 'Song of Myself', with my favorite quote of all time ['Do I contradict myself? Very well. I contradict myself. (I am large. I contain multitudes.)'], and to name each of my successive Kindles 'Leaves of Grass I/II/etc' in a tongue-in-cheek joke that if Whitman could keep publishing the same book with more every time, I, too, could keep naming it the same with a new number as a dedication to him.
I've done the reviews for this book before, and books about it, so I'm going to focus on the nature of what this publication is. Obvious State is an amazing company bringing sharp graphic design into classics to highlight their art and focus and having offered this book at two-for-one in honor of Whitman's 200th birthday, I had to jump at it. I have a number of the prints already in this book, due to being this poem especially, but the book itself is a treasure. I advise it to all, and I will be picking up the other pieces in the series. (