Leaves of Grass Now in paperback with a

Now in paperback with a new Epilogue

At once an immersive story and a brilliant literary puzzle

are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother

widowed young

Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother

Leaves of Grass Now in paperback with aIn 1855, an unknown but wildly ambitious young poet self published the first edition of Leaves of Grass, consisting of twelve untitled poems and an explanatory preface. Walt Whitman spent the rest of his life engaged in expanding and revising this work, through six editions and nearly four decades, establishing Leaves of Grass as one of the central works in the history of world poetry. This edition reproduces the magnificent "death bed edition,"