Out of Hopeful Green Stuff Woven

In The Translation of Poetry, Allen Tate describes poems that appear to imitate works their authors have never read. Sam Maitin’s prints of Gertrude Stein’s complex poems translate them into a visual alphabet, which paradoxically connects them to a gleeful alphabet-based cookbook of leafy greens. Meanwhile, Walt Whitman’s speaker transforms into the grass he adores, while Galway Kinnell’s green-clad soldiers blend into the landscape more ominously, as if they had never even existed. The title of this case comes from Walt Whitman's poem "Song of Myself."