Poetry. 150 years after the first edition of Walt Whitman's LEAVES OF GRASS was published, 37 American poets and 1 British poet gather their own leaves in the pages of this book to celebrate the origins of Modern American poetry. Includes work by Peter Gizzi, Jorie Graham, Susan Howe, Michael Palmer, Joan Retallack, Anne Waldman and many others. Each poem is printed on facing pages in English and French, with translations by Eric Athenot, Olivier Brossard and others. Joined by French translators and two publishers, they provide the "latest connections" Whitman hoped for, the connections and crossings between two continents, between two languages and cultures, between two relationships to the wor(l)d.