{"product_id":"9781587298776","title":"Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn May 1860, Walt Whitman published a third edition of \u003ci\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/i\u003e. His timing was compelling. Printed during a period of regional, ideological, and political divisions, written by a poet intimately concerned with the idea of a United States as “essentially the greatest poem,” this new edition was Whitman’s last best hope for national salvation. Now available in a facsimile edition, \u003ci\u003eLeaves of Grass, 1860\u003c\/i\u003e faithfully reproduces Whitman’s attempt to create a “Great construction of the New Bible” to save the nation on the eve of civil war and, for the first time, frames the book in historical rather than literary terms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn his third edition, Whitman added 146 new poems to the 32 that comprised the second edition, reorganized the book into a bible of American civic religion that could be cited chapter and verse, and included erotic poetry intended to bind the nation in organic harmony. This 150th anniversary edition includes a facsimile reproduction of the original 1860 volume, a thought-provoking introduction by antebellum historian and Whitman scholar Jason Stacy that situates Whitman in nineteenth-century America, and annotations that provide detailed historical context for Whitman’s poems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA profoundly rich product of a period when America faced its greatest peril, this third edition finds the poet transforming himself into a prophet of spiritual democracy and the Whitman we celebrate today—boisterous, barbaric, and benevolent. Reprinting it now continues the poet’s goal of proclaiming for “the whole of America for each \/ individual, without exception . . . uncompromising liberty and equality.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Iowa Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47112256684272,"sku":"9781587298776","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781587298776_p0.jpg?v=1769900874","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781587298776","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}