Leaves of Grass

Leaves of GrassThe one hundredth publication of the Arion Press is a handset deluxe limited edition of the text in the famed 1855 first edition of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. It contains just a dozen poems, the first, later titled Song of Myself, so long it takes up more than half the pages devoted to poetry, and Whitmans prose preface, so poetical he reused many phrases in later poems as Leaves of Grass expanded to the death bed edition of 1891 92. For the

In half the edition

Although a member of the intellectual elite of Sicily

Pearls juxtaposed with swine

along with the woodblocks

Arnold Hano is one of the most distinguished sports writers of our times

As described by the artist’s gallery

using friends

The frontispiece print by Michael Mazur evokes the creation

The images in this book were selected from that series

Xavier de Maistre

He also wrote the script for the documentary film

he made very few changes