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“Walt Whitman” by Edwin Honig, inscribed to Roger E. Stoddard

December 11, 2012 by | Comments Off on “Walt Whitman” by Edwin Honig, inscribed to Roger E. Stoddard

Below is “Walt Whitman,” a 1965 concrete poem in the shape of a pine tree by Edwin Honig (1919 – 2011, founder of Brown’s graduate writing program), personally inscribed to Roger E. Stoddard (Brown class of 1957, and former curator of the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays at Brown University Library). Books relating to Stoddard’s bibliographic work are currently on exhibit at the John Hay Library through December 14, 2012.