Collage of Myself presents a groundbreaking account of the creative story behind America s most celebrated collection of poems. In the first book-length study of Walt Whitman s journals and manuscripts, Matt Miller demonstrates that until approximately 1854 (only a single year before the first publication of Leaves of Grass), Whitman who once speculated that Leaves would be a novel or a play was unaware that his ambitions would assume the form of poetry at all.Collage of Myself details Whitman s discovery of a remarkable new creative process that allowed him to...