On Whitman

Pulitzer Prize–winning poet C. K. Williams''s personal reflection on the art of Walt Whitman

In this book, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around Walt Whitman and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as he first encountered it—to explore why Whitman''s epic "continues to inspire and sometimes daunt" him. The r...