Walt Whitman has served as a crucial figure within the tradition of Jewish American poetry. But how did Whitman, a non-Jewish, American-born poet, become so ins
Collage of Myself presents a groundbreaking account of the creative story behind America's most celebrated collection of poems. In the first book length study o
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