Walt Whitman\'s iconic collection of poems, Leaves of Grass, has earned a reputation as a sacred American text.
Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself is a sensational reading experience, an artifact in its own right, and a masterful tribute to the Good Gray Poet..
The handwritten text and illustrations intermingle in a way that\'s both surprising and wholly in tune with the spirit of the poem--they\'re exuberant, rough, and wild.
Crawford has turned the original sixty-page poem from Whitman\'s 1855 edition into a sprawling 234-page work of art.
So it\'s only appropriate that artist and illustrator Allen Crawford has chosen to illuminate--like medieval monks with their own holy scriptures--Whitman\'s masterpiece and the core of his poetic vision, Song of Myself.
Whitman himself made such comparisons, going so far as to use biblical verse as a model for his own.
Walt Whitman\'s iconic collection of poems, Leaves of Grass, has earned a reputation as a sacred American text
