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but I found this in a trash pile (shameful!) when I was moving out of college, and it's as good a place to start as any.

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Okay, I haven't read every word of this massive collection, but I have to...more...]]> 41762829 1455162 3974259 0517478595 9780517478592 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3974259.Portable_Walt_Whitman 0.0 0 Leaves of Grass in 1855 it was a slim volume of twelve poems and he was a journalist and poet from Long Island, little-known but full of ambition and poetic fire. To give a new voice to the new nation shaken by civil war, he spent his entire life revising and adding to the work, but his initial act of bravado in answering Ralph Waldo Emerson's call for a national poet has made Whitman the quintessential American writer. This rich cross-section of his work includes poems from throughout Whitman's lifetime as published on his deathbed edition of 1891, short stories, his prefaces to the many editions of Leaves of Grass, and a variety of prose selections, including Democratic Vistas, Specimen Days, and Slang in America.]]> 1955 0 0 false Sat Jan 03 16:14:36 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 16:16:25 -0800 2009 24280350 1231170 120589 0140150781 9780140150780 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171826838m/120589.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171826838s/120589.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/120589.The_Portable_Walt_Whitman_Revised_Edition 4.30 114 1955 0 0 false Wed Jun 11 18:08:41 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 11 18:11:58 -0700 2008 8821520 579039 120589 0140150781 9780140150780 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171826838m/120589.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171826838s/120589.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/120589.The_Portable_Walt_Whitman_Revised_Edition 4.30 114 1955 5 0 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 07 21:16:20 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 07 21:17:37 -0800 2007 48036483 317159 120589 0140150781 9780140150780 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171826838m/120589.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171826838s/120589.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/120589.The_Portable_Walt_Whitman_Revised_Edition 4.30 114 1955 0 0 false Fri May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 02 15:09:11 -0800 2009 Fri May 22 13:18:04 -0700 2009
Democratic Vistas - 3.5 stars

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