Walt Whitman, Author, Peter Strauss, Read by Warner Adult $9.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59483-558-2
This Whitman guide-one of the first six installments in Hachette Audio's new study guide series-is the audio equivalent of Cliff's Notes. It opens the door on the seminal 19th-century poet, but not especially wide. Peter Strauss delivers Whitman's...
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Walt Whitman, Author, Loren Long, Illustrator , illus. by Loren Long. S&S $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-86397-4
The illustrations in Long's latest effort call to mind his work in I Dream of Trains
; both have an ethereal quality that pulls readers utterly into the story's world. Shadowy and soft-edged, in moody autumn colors, the images are paired...
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Walt Whitman, Author, Susan L. Roth, Illustrator , illus. by Susan L. Roth. National Geographic $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7922-6143-8
Excerpting the bulk of a poem included in a late edition of Leaves of Grass
, Roth (Happy Birthday Mr. Kang
) describes a parallel between her own medium and Whitman's verse; she writes in an endnote that the poem "draws together diverse...
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Walt Whitman, Author, Christopher Castiglia, Editor, Glenn Hendler, Editor , edited and intro. by Christopher Castigla and Glenn Hendler. Duke Univ. $21.95 (147p) ISBN 978-0-8223-3942-7
The only novel by America's eventual apostle of freedom and spontaneity first appeared in a broadsheet form in 1842, cost 12 1/2 cents and sold 20,000 copies. It's been out of print for 40 years, and it's easy to see why: less a novel
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Walt Whitman, Author, David S. Reynolds, Editor Oxford University Press $35 (167p) ISBN 978-0-19-518342-9
As scholarship has made its importance to American letters more manifest, editions of the 1855 version of Whitman's masterpiece have multiplied. This one, prepared in honor of the poem's 150th anniversary, will be hard to beat. Edited by major...
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Walt Whitman, Author, Michael Cunningham, Editor Picador USA $13 (182p) ISBN 978-0-312-42607-1
As the life and writing of Virginia Woolf was the inspiration for Cunningham's The Hours, Walt Whitman, is at the heart of his latest, Specimen Days: he appears as a bearded old man walking on Broadway, and his poetry is read and scrawled on the...
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Walt Whitman, Author, Gay Wilson Allen, Afterword by Holy Cow Press $5.95 (44p) ISBN 978-0-930100-23-0
Published for the first time in paperback, this short essay is composed of 110 notes for a linguistic project never completed by the poet. At the core of the effort: a celebration of the American language's past and its possibilities. (May)
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Walt Witman, Author, Walt Whitman, Author, Lee Bennett Hopkins, Editor Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $8.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-294496-4
Thoughtfully selected and handsomely designed and illustrated, this notable collection amply displays the power of this singular poet. Ages 12-up. (Sept.)
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Walt Whitman and Brian Selznick. Abrams ComicArts, $29.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-4197-3405-2
Whitman originally collected these 12 romantic, homoerotic poems into a secret handmade book in the 1850s, and they are now brought gracefully to life courtesy of children’s book author and illustrator Selznick (The Invention of Hugo Cabret)....
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