The Whitman Revolution brings together a rich collection of Betsy Erkkila’s phenomenally influential essays that have been published over the years, along wit

Erkkila's aim is to repair the split between the private and the public, the personal and the political and the poet and the history that has governed the analy

Liberty or Death is the little-known story of the American Revolution told from the perspectives of the African-American slaves who fought on the side of the Br

Winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Ambassador Book Award and Finalist for the National for the Book Critics Circle Award In his poetry Walt Whitman set out to

Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist, considered by many as the "father of free verse" and the great poet of the American