{"product_id":"live-oak-with-moss-by-walt-whitman-9781419734052","title":"Live Oak, with Moss","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs he was turning forty, Walt Whitman wrote twelve poems in a small handmade book he entitled \u003cem\u003eLive Oak, with Moss\u003c\/em\u003e. The poems were intensely private reflections on his attraction to and affection for other men. They were also Whitman's most adventurous explorations of the theme of same-sex love, composed decades before the word \"homosexual\" came into use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis revolutionary, extraordinarily beautiful and passionate cluster of poems was never published by Whitman and has remained unknown to the general public—until now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling and Caldecott Award-winning illustrator Brian Selznick offers a provocative visual narrative of \u003cem\u003eLive Oak, with Moss\u003c\/em\u003e, and Whitman scholar Karen Karbiener reconstructs the story of the poetic cluster's creation and destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWalt Whitman's reassembled, reinterpreted \u003cem\u003eLive Oak, with Moss\u003c\/em\u003e serves as a source of inspiration and a cause for celebration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596770590956,"sku":"9781419734052","price":50.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781419734052-live-oak-with-moss.jpg?v=1777941681","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/live-oak-with-moss-by-walt-whitman-9781419734052","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}