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Live Oak, with Moss

Walt Whitman


  • Abrams (A&CB)
  • by Walt Whitman, Brian Selznick (Illustrator)
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.

ISBN 9781419734052 | E | HB
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Publisher Abrams (A&CB)
ISBN 9781419734052
Author(s) Walt Whitman, Brian Selznick (Illustrator)
Publication date April 2019
Edition Hardback
Dimensions 210 x 140 mm
Illustrations throughout col.ill.
Pages 192
Language(s) Eng. ed.
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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.