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The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review is a literary quarterly sponsored by the Graduate College and the Department of English and published by The University of Iowa. WWQR is the official journal of the Walt Whitman Studies Association, affiliated with the American Literature Association. Beginning with volume 33, no. 1 (Summer 2015) the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review has become an open-access, online-only publication.

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  • Volume 42 • Issue 1/2 • 2025 • Walt Whitman and Visual Culture

    Volume 42 • Issue 1/2 • 2025 • Walt Whitman and Visual Culture


About cover image

Illustration from Allen Crawford's Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself. See Aaron Moe's "Filaments of Word and Image: A Fragmented Reflection on Allen Crawford's Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself," p. 7.

Essays


Whitman in Art: The Case of Paul Peter Piech

  • M Wynn Thomas

Volume 42 • Issue 1/2 • 2025 • Walt Whitman and Visual Culture • 1-30

Filaments of Word and Image: A Fragmented Reflection on Allen Crawford’s Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself

  • Aaron M. Moe

Volume 42 • Issue 1/2 • 2025 • Walt Whitman and Visual Culture • 31-53

Allen Crawford Image Gallery

  • Ed Folsom
  • Sophia Craig

Volume 42 • Issue 1/2 • 2025 • Walt Whitman and Visual Culture • 54-94

Reviews


Walt Whitman on Fire: Brian Selznick's Live Oak, With Moss.

  • Sam Magavern

Volume 42 • Issue 1/2 • 2025 • Walt Whitman and Visual Culture • 95-103

Delphine Rumeau. Comrade Whitman: From Russian to Internationalist Icon.

  • Dara Barnat

Volume 42 • Issue 1/2 • 2025 • Walt Whitman and Visual Culture • 104-107

Dara Barnat. Walt Whitman and the Making of Jewish American Poetry.

  • Yosefa Raz

Volume 42 • Issue 1/2 • 2025 • Walt Whitman and Visual Culture • 108-112

F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp. Divine Style: Walt Whitman and the King James Bible.

  • Edward Whitley

Volume 42 • Issue 1/2 • 2025 • Walt Whitman and Visual Culture • 113-118

Bibliography


Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Summer/Fall 2024

  • Ed Folsom

Volume 42 • Issue 1/2 • 2025 • Walt Whitman and Visual Culture • 119-129