Matt Miller is an assistant professor of English at Yeshiva University. His articles have appeared in Arizona Quarterly, Book History, and Walt Whitman Quarterly Review.

""This is an important study, one requiring that the reader rethink a number of commonly held assumptions about Whitman and his Leaves of Grass .""—D. D. Kummings, Choice |""Miller's book is as valuable a publication on Whitman’s poetry as any to have appeared for some time.""—M. Wynn Thomas, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review

• List of Illustrations 000 Acknowledgments 000 Introduction 000 List of Abbreviations 000 1. How Whitman Used His Early Notebooks 000 2. Packing and Unpacking the First Leaves of Grass 000 3. Kosmos Poets and Spinal Ideas 000 4. Poems of Materials 000 5. Whitman after Collage / Collage after Whitman 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000

Matt Miller is an assistant professor of English at Yeshiva University. His articles have appeared in Arizona Quarterly, Book History, and Walt Whitman Quarterly Review.

""This is an important study, one requiring that the reader rethink a number of commonly held assumptions about Whitman and his Leaves of Grass .""—D. D. Kummings, Choice |""Miller's book is as valuable a publication on Whitman’s poetry as any to have appeared for some time.""—M. Wynn Thomas, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review

• List of Illustrations 000 Acknowledgments 000 Introduction 000 List of Abbreviations 000 1. How Whitman Used His Early Notebooks 000 2. Packing and Unpacking the First Leaves of Grass 000 3. Kosmos Poets and Spinal Ideas 000 4. Poems of Materials 000 5. Whitman after Collage / Collage after Whitman 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000

Matt Miller is an assistant professor of English at Yeshiva University. His articles have appeared in Arizona Quarterly, Book History, and Walt Whitman Quarterly Review.

""This is an important study, one requiring that the reader rethink a number of commonly held assumptions about Whitman and his Leaves of Grass .""—D. D. Kummings, Choice |""Miller's book is as valuable a publication on Whitman’s poetry as any to have appeared for some time.""—M. Wynn Thomas, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review

• List of Illustrations 000 Acknowledgments 000 Introduction 000 List of Abbreviations 000 1. How Whitman Used His Early Notebooks 000 2. Packing and Unpacking the First Leaves of Grass 000 3. Kosmos Poets and Spinal Ideas 000 4. Poems of Materials 000 5. Whitman after Collage / Collage after Whitman 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000