Re-Scripting Walt Whitman: An Introduction to His Life and WorkISBN: 978-1-4051-1818-7
Paperback
174 pages
August 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, Volume Twenty-Three,
Numbers Three/Four, Winter/Spring 2006
“Drawing on their extensive experience with electronic
editing, more specifically, their work with the Walt Whitman
Archive, Ed Folsom and Ken Price reconstruct the details of the
poet's life and thread through that life the complex but
fascinating story of Whitman's evolving master-piece, Leaves of
Grass. By emphasizing the manuscript origins of the poetry, Folsom
and Price reveal that just about everything we thought we knew
about this much-discussed writer and his work is subject to
revision. At nearly every turn, Re-Scripting Walt Whitman seems to
proclaim, ‘Allons! the road is before us!’ ”
Donald D. Kummings, Co-editor, Walt Whitman: An
Encyclopedia
“Whitman is America’s ever-fluid text. Thorough,
concise, and engagingly written, Re-scripting Walt Whitman
illuminates the life and works — the poet’s sexuality,
politics, and ceaseless growth — with an important new
emphasis on manuscripts, revision, and the innovative online
Whitman Archive that will startle general readers and literary
scholars alike.” John Bryant, Hofstra University
"A splendid primer to the complexities of Whitman's prose and
verse. Folsom and Price expertly trace the evolution of Whitman's
career and the gradual growth of Leaves of Grass. Scholars no less
than novices will be inspired to read Whitman with fresh insight."
Gary F. Scharnhorst, University of New Mexico
“Re-Scripting Walt Whitman accomplishes two significant tasks at once. It ties Whitman's poetry to his life in a clear, down-to-earth narrative of biographical detail and literary accomplishment. And it breaks new ground in its portrayal of Whitman as a working poet, one who knew his way around a print shop and based his radical innovations on an intimate knowledge of type, print, ink, and bookmaking. Drawing on their own experience in constructing a new electronic Whitman archive, Ed Folsom and Kenneth Price provide unique lessons in reading the actual materiality of Whitman's poems as the first step toward grasping their meanings.” Alan Trachtenberg, Yale University