The author of Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity, David Haven Blake is an associate professor of English at the College of New Jersey. Michael Robertson is a professor of English at the College of New Jersey and the author of Stephen Crane, Journalism, and the Making of Modern American Literature and Worshiping Walt: The Whitman Disciples.
"Gracefully introduced by Blake and Robertson, this important collection of essays reflects on Whitman's complicated legacy in our time and for the future. The book is wide-ranging and elegantly focused."--Vivian Pollak, author, The Erotic Whitman "This sterling collection of essays is well matched to its Whitmanian epigraph: 'Past and present and future are not disjoined but joined.' Their meeting point is reception, the myriad of ways that Leaves of Grass has been interpreted by readers from around the globe and across the generations or--in the words of Kirsten Silva Gruesz's stunning closing essay--the 'process of mutual adaptation across space and time' that links the poetry to the world's readers and cultures."--Ezra Greenspan, Edmund and Louise Kahn Chair in Huanities, Southern Methodist University
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