Published in conjunction with an eponymous Grolier Club exhibition, this catalogue presents the story of Walt Whitmans coming of age as a poet through a unique assemblage of rare books, manuscripts, and artifacts, many never before seen, from the Whitman Collection of Susan Jaffe Tane, archives such as the Feinberg Collection at the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library's Berg Collection, private family collections, and forgotten treasures from Bryn Mawr College's Special Collections and the Brooklyn College Library.
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| Poet of the Body: New York's Walt Whitman |
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Chapter 1 Starting from Paumanok: Poetic Origins |
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Chapter 2 Brooklyn of ample hills was mine: The Seed-Time of the Leaves |
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Chapter 3 Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son: Navigating the Urban Literary Marketplace |
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Chapter 4 City of my walks and joys!: The Quest for Love and Comradeship |
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Chapter 5 I swim in it as in a sea: New York Friendships |
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Chapter 6 I celebrate myself: Manhattan's Son Rises |
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Chapter 7 The Wound-Dresser: The Civil War and Its Aftermath |
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Chapter 8 Signing for Soul and Body: The Good Gray Poet |
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Chapter 9 Camerado, this is no book: Whitman Sells Himself |
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Chapter 10 Poets to come!: Whitman's Legacy in the Book Arts |
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Chapter 11 I give you my hand!: Collecting Whitman's Body (of Work) |
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Walt Whitman Manuscripts and Letters |
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Associated Manuscripts and Letters |
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Books from Walt Whitman's Library |
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Photographs and Portraits |
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Periodicals Containing Contributions |
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Artifacts Relating to Walt Whitman |
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Fine Press, Modern Editions, and Book Art |
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Whitmaniana--Selected Ephemera |
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Susan Jaffe Tane is a curator and collector of Edgar Allan Poe books, manuscripts, and artifacts, as well as a former vice president of Utensco. Karen Karbiener is a clinical professor at New York University.
