Live Oak, with Moss / text by Walt Whitman; illustrated by Brian Selznick; afterward by Karen Karbiener

Identifier:FA.OSS1.2308

Dimensions:6 x 8.5 in

Creation dates:2019

text by: Walt Whitman, Karen Karbiener

Description:Hardcover, illustrated work of Walt Whitman's poetry. 192 pages. A print is included in the work.

"As he was turning forty, Walt Whitman wrote twelve poems in a small handmade book he entitled 'Live Oak, With Moss.' The poems were intensely private reflections on his attraction to and affection for other men. They were also Whitman’s most adventurous explorations of the theme of same-sex love, composed decades before the word 'homosexual' came into use. This revolutionary, extraordinarily beautiful and passionate cluster of poems was never published by Whitman and has remained unknown to the general public--until now. New York Times bestselling and Caldecott Award-winning illustrator Brian Selznick offers a provocative visual narrative of 'Live Oak, With Moss,' and Whitman scholar Karen Karbiener reconstructs the story of the poetic cluster’s creation and destruction. Walt Whitman’s reassembled, reinterpreted 'Live Oak, With Moss' serves as a source of inspiration and a cause for celebration." -- publisher's note