Collage of MyselfCollage of Myself presents a groundbreaking account of the creative story behind Americas most celebrated collection of poems. In the first book length study of Walt Whitmans journals and manuscripts, Matt Miller demonstrates that until approximately 1854 (only a single year before the first publication of Leaves of Grass), Whitmanwho once speculated that Leaves would be a novel or a playwas unaware that his ambitions would assume the form of poetry