Creator
Susan Jaffe Tane & Karen Karbiener, with Julie Carson & Gabriel McKee
Title
Poet of the Body: New York’s Walt Whitman
Coverage
New York
Publisher
The Grolier Club
Date
2019
Description
The vibrant pink calf is inlaid with two counterposed full-body images of Whitman, pen in hand, in black and white goatskin. His phrase “Listener up there” and other images complete the ensemble. Inspired by Jerry Kelly’s design for the dust jacket of the original edition, the binding was created in 2019 at the Dragonfly Bindery, in Rhode Island.
Source
The Grolier Club Bookbindings Collection.
Format
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