About this item
Whitmans most beloved poem, Song of Myself, illustrated, illuminated, and presented like never before. Walt Whitmans iconic collection of poems, Leaves of Grass, has earned a reputation as a sacred American text. Whitman himself made such comparisons, going so far as to use biblical verse as a model for his own. So its only appropriate that artist and illustrator Allen Crawford has chosen to illuminatelike medieval monks with their own holy scripturesWhitmans masterpiece and the core of his poetic vision, Song of Myself. Crawford has turned the original sixty-page poem from Whitmans 1855 edition into a sprawling 234-page work of art. The handwritten text and illustrations intermingle in a way thats both surprising and wholly in tune with the spirit of the poemtheyre exuberant, rough, and wild.
