Every Hour, Every Atom: A Collection of Walt Whitman's Early Notebooks and Fragments (Iowa Whitman) - Softcover

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Some of the dimmest years in Walt Whitman&;s life precede the advent of Leaves of Grass in 1855, when he was working as a jour­nalist and fiction writer. Starting around 1850, what he&;d begun writing in his personal notebooks was far more enigmatic than anything he&;d done before.

One of Whitman&;s most secretive projects during this timeframe was a novel, Life and Adventures of Jack Engle; serialized anonymously in the spring of 1852, and rediscovered and properly published in 2017. The key to the novel&;s later discovery were plot notes Whit­man had made in one of his private notebooks.

Whitman&;s invaluable notebooks have been virtually inacces­sible to the public, until now. Maintaining the early notebooks&; wild, syncretic feel and sample illustrations of Whitman&;s beauti­ful and unkempt pages, scholars Zachary Turpin and Matt Miller&;s thorough transcriptions have made these notebooks available to all; sharing Whitman&;s secret space for developing his poetry, his writing, his philosophy, and himself.

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