The Portable Walt Whitman

8 best books like The Portable Walt Whitman (Walt Whitman): Trust Exercise, Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure, I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It, Favorite Poems, The Question of the Missing Head, Early Poems, Selected Poems

Trust Exercise

Author	Susan Choi
ISBN	1250309883

Pulitzer Finalist Susan Choi's narrative-upending novel about what happens when a first love between high school students is interrupted by the attentions of a charismatic teacher

In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle...

Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure

Author	The American Poetry and Literacy Project
ISBN	0486406466

Most of us, at one time or another, have experienced wanderlust. For many, the desire to explore is almost irresistible. Now for devotees of poetry, and for those who long for the open road, this highly affordable collection contains a rich selection of poems about travel and adventure.
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I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems

Author	Eileen Myles
ISBN	0062389106

A collection of thrilling new and beloved past work from one of America's most celebrated poets, Eileen Myles, a cult icon and modern favorite

Eileen Myles's poetry and prose are known for their blend of reality and fiction, the sublime and the ephemeral, in which Myles not only lets her readers...

The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

Author	Mark Twain
ISBN	0940450259

This Library of America volume contains the novels that, when published, transformed an obscure Western journalist into a national celebrity. The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It (sometimes called The Innocents at Home) were immensely successful when first published and they remain today the...

Favorite Poems

Author	William Wordsworth
ISBN	0486270734

Widely considered the greatest and most influential of the English Romantic poets, William Wordsworth (1770–1850) remains today among the most admired and studied of all English writers. He is best remembered for the poems he wrote between 1798 and 1806, the period most fully represented in this...

The Question of the Missing Head

Author	E.J. Copperman
ISBN	0738741515

Samuel Hoenig answers questions for a living. And as a man with Asperger's Syndrome, his unique personality helps him ferret out almost any answer there is. But his latest question is a rather odd one--who stole a preserved head from the Garden State Cryonics Institute?

Arriving at the scene...

Early Poems

Author	W.B. Yeats
ISBN	0486278085

One of the greatest poets of any century, the Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) drew upon Irish folklore and myth as inspiration for much of his early poetry. Mythic themes as well as many other topics are masterfully explored in this rich selection of 134 lyrics chiefly selected from...

Selected Poems

Author	Percy Bysshe Shelley
ISBN	0486275582

This selection of many of Shelley’s best-known and most representative poems will give readers an exciting encounter with one of the most original and stimulating figures in English poetry. Thirty-seven poems of varying lengths are included, among them such well-known verses as "Adonais," "Ode...