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Whitman's Code : A New Bible, Vol 2

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Volume 2 of the two-part exploration by M.C. Gardner, Whitman's Code: A New Bible. This collection is an inventive 21st-century re-assessment of a 19th-century living masterpiece. Its genesis is a note first reported by Whitman's friend R.M. Bucke. The note reads: "The Great Construction of the New Bible. Not to be diverted from the principal - the main life work - the three hundred and sixty-five - it ought to be ready in 1859." In energetic and playful prose endowed with the spirit of discovery, Gardner presents an exploration predicated on the poet's preoccupation with time - "I accept time absolutely" - following an uncanny numerological code that leads us to new insights about the much-explored nineteenth-century poet. The two resulting volumes are two Testaments in a new vision of the universe of Whitman's creation and the larger one it both exalted and mirrored.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780974504254
  • ISBN-10: 0974504254
  • Publisher: Patcheny Press
  • Publish Date: October 2014
  • Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 2.35 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.46 pounds
  • Page Count: 1050

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