Poet of the Body: New York's Walt Whitman - Hardcover

by Susan Jaffe Tane (Author), Karen Karbiener (Author)

Published in conjunction with an eponymous Grolier Club exhibition, this catalogue presents the story of Walt Whitman's 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.

Author Biography

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.