SELECTED POEMS by Gunter Grass, translated by Michael Hamburger and Christopher Middleton. 63 pages. Harcourt. Brace & World. $3.95. Giinter Grass looks like a slightly sinister Santa Claus and ...

Leaves of Grass is the title of the first book of poems published by Walt Whitman in 1855.It is also the title of the last book of poems published by Whitman before his death in 1892, and of five ...

Long before the current wave of book banning targeted titles including “The 1619 Project” and “Everywhere Babies,” Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” was banned from libraries across ...

The award-winning author of 'Fear of Flying' on Jenny Offill, 'Leaves of Grass,' and the Book That Everyone Should Read.

Long before the current wave of book banning, Walt Whitman’s poetry classic was banned from libraries across the United States. The backlash even cost Whitman his Interior Department job.

A Virginia library had an "exciting return" when a copy of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" found its way back to the facility after being due back 50 years earlier.

Interpreting lines from “Leaves of Grass” about the beauty and wonder to be discovered in the minuscule and routine. By Sergio Garcia Sanchez Sergio García Sánchez, a cartoonist, illustrator ...

Pockets throughout history, clockwise from top left: Walt Whitman, pictured in the frontispiece of “Leaves of Grass”; 1936 fashion sketches by Elsa Schiaparelli; Bernard Rudofsky’s “24 ...