Leaves of Grass On Juneteenth vitally revises conventional

On Juneteenth vitally revises conventional renderings of Texas and national history

Now in paperback with a new Epilogue

The story is told by Cyril's son Danny

the celebrated Comanche horse thief

his prospect for freedom dwindles

Leaves of Grass On Juneteenth vitally revises conventionalIn 1855, an unknown but wildly ambitious young poet self published the first edition of Leaves of Grass, consisting of twelve untitled poems and an explanatory preface. Walt Whitman spent the rest of his life engaged in expanding and revising this work, through six editions and nearly four decades, establishing Leaves of Grass as one of the central works in the history of world poetry. This edition reproduces the magnificent "death bed edition,"