The Tenderest Lover, the erotic poetry of Walt Whitman

by Walter Lowenfels (editor)

FINE, gray cloth over boards with gilt font and engraved floral design cover and gilt and black font on spine, 154 pps. Unmarked tight and clean. Dust jacket is not price clipped. Light rubbing on edges and light discoloration band on inside flaps at top and bottom edge. Now under mylar wraps. Stated FIRST edition / printing. GIFT QUALITY. "Walter Lowenfels has made the selection of the self-styled tenderest lover's poetry and most of it is drawn from the Children of Adam and Calamus sequences. He also contributes an introduction dismissing the speculative and unproven particulars of Whitman's personal experience and affirming his identification with all humanity--with men, with women, in an all encompassing ""en masse."

Genres: Poetry

154 pages, hardback

First published January 1, 1970

Reviews

[MKF · Rating 3 out of 5]

To truly enjoy the poetry of Whitman I recommend reading Leaves of Grass. This book just picks a few poems from that volume that the author considered to be erotic. Some I think fits the definition of erotic others not so much.

[Andre · Rating 4 out of 5]

the only reason this doesn't get the fifth star is because there is nothing here that isn't already in Song of Myself. Some uncollected extras would have been nice.

[Phyllis · Rating 5 out of 5]

beautifully illustrated by J K Lambert