Wrenching Times. Poems from Drum-Taps

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Fine, Limited edition, 1991 From an edition limited to just 450 copies, in quarter leather over white/grey boards, titles in red to spine. Internally, half title, portrait frontis, [6] 7-70 pp, [1], [1] limitation, 8 full page coloured wood engravings by Schanilec 1 small at limitation. Giving you a wonderful image of the vast American landscape with the pale blue skies & abstract mountains. (375*230 mm). Gaylord Schanilec is a notable American wood engraver & printer. He is the proprietor of the press Midnight Paper Sales, located in Stockholm, Wisconsin. Whitman was an American poet, essayist & journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism & realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse.[1] His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality.