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Author : Walt Whitman
Release : 1882
Genre : American essays
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Book Synopsis Specimen Days & Collect by : Walt Whitman
Download or read book Specimen Days & Collect written by Walt Whitman. This book was released on 1882. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Cunningham
Release : 2007-04-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 247/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Specimen Days by : Michael Cunningham
Download or read book Specimen Days written by Michael Cunningham. This book was released on 2007-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In each section of Michael Cunningham's bold new novel, his first since The Hours, we encounter the same group of characters: a young boy, an older man, and a young woman. "In the Machine" is a ghost story that takes place at the height of the industrial revolution, as human beings confront the alienating realities of the new machine age. "The Children's Crusade," set in the early twenty-first century, plays with the conventions of the noir thriller as it tracks the pursuit of a terrorist band that is detonating bombs, seemingly at random, around the city. The third part, "Like Beauty," evokes a New York 150 years into the future, when the city is all but overwhelmed by refugees from the first inhabited planet to be contacted by the people of Earth. Presiding over each episode of this interrelated whole is the prophetic figure of the poet Walt Whitman, who promised his future readers, "It avails not, neither time or place . . . I am with you, and know how it is." Specimen Days is a genre-bending, haunting, and transformative ode to life in our greatest city and a meditation on the direction and meaning of America's destiny. It is a work of surpassing power and beauty by one of the most original and daring writers at work today.
Author : Walt Whitman
Release : 1902
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Book Synopsis The Complete Prose Works of Walt Whitman by : Walt Whitman
Download or read book The Complete Prose Works of Walt Whitman written by Walt Whitman. This book was released on 1902. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walt Whitman
Release : 2019-04-09
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 532/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Live Oak, with Moss by : Walt Whitman
Download or read book Live Oak, with Moss written by Walt Whitman. This book was released on 2019-04-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Reading this book, what becomes eminently clear is that Selznick is laying the groundwork for GLBTQIA+ literary history . . . as it pertains to Whitman.” —School Library Journal 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. “In harmony, the art, the poems, and [Karbiener’s] analysis all honor while illuminating Whitman’s work and make it more accessible to contemporary readers.” —Publishers Weekly
Author : Walt Whitman
Release : 2006-04-18
Genre : Poetry
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Book Synopsis Laws for Creations by : Walt Whitman
Download or read book Laws for Creations written by Walt Whitman. This book was released on 2006-04-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Walt Whitman, Michael Cunningham sees a poet whose vision of humanity is ecstatic, democratic, and sensuous. Just over a hundred years ago, Whitman celebrated America as it survived the Civil War, as it endured great poverty, and as it entered the Industrial Revolution, which would make it the most powerful nation on Earth. In Specimen Days Michael Cunningham makes Whitman's verse sing across time, and in Laws for Creations he celebrates what Whitman means to him, and how he appeared at the heart of his new novel. Just as the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hours drew on the life and work of English novelist Viriginia Woolf, Specimen Days lovingly features the work of American poet Walt Whitman. Bringing together extracts from Whitman's prodigious writings, including Leaves of Grass and his journal, Specimen Days, Michael Cunningham's Laws for Creations provides an introduction to one of America's greatest visionary poets from one of our greatest contemporary novelists.
