Books in the Iowa Whitman Series series

Among the more than 150 letters collected in this volume are numerous correspondence concerning Whitman's Civil War years, including a letter sending John Hay, the personal secretary to Abraham Lincoln, a manuscript copy of ""O Captain, My Captain!

In 1852, young Walt Whitman was hard at work writing two books. One, a novel, would be published under a pseudonym and serialized in a newspaper. Life and Adventures of Jack Engle is a short, rollicking story of orphanhood, avarice, and adventure in New York City. After more than 160 years, the University of Iowa Press has reprinted this lost work.

Brings together a rich collection of Betsy Erkkila's phenomenally influential essays that have been published over the years, along with two powerful new essays. Erkkila offers a moving account of the inseparable mix of the spiritual-sexual-political in Whitman and the absolute centrality of male-male connection to his work and thinking.

Grounded in archival discoveries, Afterlives traces the origins of nineteenth-century America's preservation compulsion, illuminating the influences of botanical, medical, spiritualist, and sentimental discourses on Whitman's work.