Walt Whitman: A Life
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Justin Kaplan's biography chronicles the extraordinary life of one of America's most celebrated and controversial poets with both scholarly rigor and vivid narrative energy. Kaplan traces Walt Whitman's journey from his humble origins on Long Island and his years as a printer, journalist, and wanderer, to the explosive self-invention that produced Leaves of Grass — a work that forever transformed American literature. With penetrating insight, Kaplan uncovers the psychological and cultural forces that shaped Whitman's radical vision of democracy, the body, and the self, illuminating the poet's complex sexuality, his Civil War experiences as a wound-dresser, and his long struggle for literary recognition. The biography presents Whitman not as a marble monument but as a deeply human figure — contradictory, ambitious, and endlessly reinventing himself — making this definitive portrait as compelling as the poetry it seeks to explain.
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Condition remarks:
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Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good , price clipped
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Justin Kaplan's biography chronicles the extraordinary life of one of America's most celebrated and controversial poets with both scholarly rigor and vivid narrative energy. Kaplan traces Walt Whitman's journey from his humble origins on Long Island and his years as a printer, journalist, and wanderer, to the explosive self-invention that produced Leaves of Grass — a work that forever transformed American literature. With penetrating insight, Kaplan uncovers the psychological and cultural forces that shaped Whitman's radical vision of democracy, the body, and the self, illuminating the poet's complex sexuality, his Civil War experiences as a wound-dresser, and his long struggle for literary recognition. The biography presents Whitman not as a marble monument but as a deeply human figure — contradictory, ambitious, and endlessly reinventing himself — making this definitive portrait as compelling as the poetry it seeks to explain.
