Re-scripting Walt Whitman: an introduction to his life and work

Growing up in the age of accelerating print : Whitman as printer, journalist, teacher, and fiction writer

"Many manuscript doings and undoings" : the road toward Leaves of grass

"I was chilled with the cold types and cylinder and wet paper between us" : the first and second editions of Leaves of grass

Intimate script and the New American Bible : "Calamus" and the making of the 1860 Leaves of grass

Blood-stained memoranda

Reconstructing Leaves of grass, restructuring a life

Dying into leaves

Appendix : what Whitman left us.