LEAVES OF GRASS: ellipses
FULL DESCRIPTION: Leaves of Grass - Didier Mutel ellipses
Walt Whitman. LEAVES OF GRASS.
Orchamp, Atelier Mutel, 2026.
(50 x 30 cm). 83 pp. Printed on Rives paper. Limited to an edition of 50 copies.
Reprinting the ellipses from the 1855 LEAVES OF GRASS, precisely as they appear in the original edition, with the words removed.
Captivated by Whitman’s ingeniously simple use of typography, Mutel’s focus on the ellipses in Leaves of Grass is a study of the poet’s breath and the little silences between the lines that give the poems their rhythmic power.