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Walt Whitman spent much of his time with wounded soldiers, both in the field and in the hospitals. The 40 notebooks he filled became the basis for this extraordinary diary of a medic in the Civil War.
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Peter Coviello is Associate Professor of English at Bowdoin College and currently chair of the Program in Gay and Lesbian Studies. He is the author of Intimacy in America: Dreams of Affiliation in Antebellum Literature.
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"Whitman kept notes on his Washington experiences, later working them up into newspaper articles and lectures, which in 1876 he published in a limited edition under the title Memoranda During the War. The Memoranda are now republished under the editorship of Peter Coviello, with a
well-informed, thoughtful introduction and succinct notes."--JM Coetzee, The New York Review of Books
"These 'impromptu jottings'--descriptions of soldiers' last breaths; their recoveries; their requests for toothbrushes, pickles, rice pudding, fresh underwear, a good book, a pen, an ice cream treat, a letter to be sent home--later became 'Memoranda During the War,' a slim volume that Whitman
published in a private edition in 1876.... It now resurfaces--to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the first edition of 'Leaves of Grass,' also reissued by Oxford University Press--in an authoritative version, thoughtfully annotated and introduced by Peter Coviello."--Los Angeles Times Book
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"As Peter Coviello points out in his excellent introduction to this volume, Whitman came late to the scene of the Civil War, but, when he did so, he produced one of the few truly indispensable books about it. Memoranda During the War is written in prose that often compares well for beauty and
intensity with the best poems in Leaves of Grass. It is easy to see why the book has served as a model for writers on the desolations of war from Stephen Crane to Hemingway to our own day."--Michael Moon, Johns Hopkins University
"When Walt Whitman said that the real Civil War would never get into the books, he was wrong. It got into this one. Memoranda During the War is a brave and beautiful act of witness by America's greatest poet--and one of her greatest souls."--Roy Morris, Jr., author of The Better Angel: Walt
Whitman in the Civil War
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- PublisherApplewood Books
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 1557091323
- ISBN 13 9781557091321
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages96
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