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Chargement... Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myselfpar Walt Whitman
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"Walt Whitman's iconic Leaves of grass has earned a reputation as a sacred American text, so it's fitting that artist and illustrator Allen Crawford has illuminated--like the holy scriptures of medieval monks--the core of Whitman's masterpiece, "Song of myself". Crawford's handwritten text and illustrations intermingle in a way that's both surprising and wholly in tune with the spirit of the poem--exuberant, rough, and wild."--Book jacket. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Anyhow, it was worth hunting out. I kind of already expected to enjoy the illustrations. The thing that surprised me was how difficult it was to follow the flow of the text, until I found Crawford's patterns. This wasn't a bad thing. Reading a page wrong feels jarring and forces you to reread. Thisbook might just have improved my ability to read poetry.
The poem itself you either know or don't (Do I contradict myself? Fine, I contradict myself. I'm large, I contain multitudes) and I didn't much care for it when I read it in my 20s. I still found passages a bit... unwoke? Maybe I'm too British. I can't love myself that much. But the illumination brought out more of the energy of the poem for me. It's one I can see my self going back to in 20 years.