Live oak, with moss
Subtitle: a restorative edition
By: edited & with an afterword by Steven Olsen-Smith ; assembled & printed by Rutherford Witthus with images by Roger L. Crossgrove and a foreword by Richard Tayson
Contributors: Witthus, Rutherford W., 1942-; Crossgrove, Roger L.; Tayson, Richard, 1962-
Publisher: Rutherford Witthus
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Walpole, NH
Language: eng
Notes: At head of title: Walt Whitman.

"The images in Live oak, with moss were captured in a darkened room by Roger Crossgrove, a photographer who, with his camera's lens left open, paints with streams of light directly on to naked male bodies. ... The images were scanned from Roger Crossgrove's original gelatin prints; the resized images were printed as originally conceived by Crossgrove and as inverted reversals ... The flexible [paper] binding is ... [a] modification of early 18th century book structures. ..."--colophon.

"This is the first printing of a newly restored edition of Walt Whitman's twelve-poem sequence written in the late 1850s and subsequently dispersed by the poet among the "Calamus" cluster in Leaves of Grass. ... Steven Olsen-Smith ... has restored the sequence to its original state ... Images of Whitman's annotated manuscript pages parallel the restored text. A very personal foreword by poet Richard Tayson positions the piece within the context of a 21st century gay man. ..."--prospectus.

Printed in an edition of 20 copies, signed by Witthus, and in a custom cardboard box with printed paper labels.