Earth, My Likeness: Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman
“Generations of readers have turned to Walt Whitman’sLeaves of Grassfor its nature poetry. Now Howard Nelson has given us, in one slim volume, the best of Whitman’s nature writing. Nelson’s superb selection includes prose and poetry, both soaring rhetoric (‘I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars’) and a quietly delightful diary entry about an ‘Adamic air-bath’ on the banks of Timber Creek. Rod MacIver’s fresh, deft watercolors are a perfect match for Whitman’s ‘spontaneous me.’” —Michael Robertson, author ofWorshipping Walt: The Whitman Disciples--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.