Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: Live Oak, with Moss and Calamus

by Walt Whitman and Betsy Erkkila

In his 1859 "Live Oak, with Moss," Walt Whitman's unpublished sheaf of twelve poems on manly passion, the poet dreams of a city where men who love men can live and love openly. The revised "Live Oak, with Moss" poems became "Calamus," Whitman's cluster of poems on "adhesive" and manly love, comradeship, and democracy, in Leaves of Grass. Commemorating both the first publication of the "Calamus" poems and the little-known manuscript of notebook...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1587299585
• ISBN13: 9781587299582
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 8.5"