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| Leaves of Grass Pillow, 1980 2006, fabric, thread, stuffing, poem from 1980 Signet edition of Leaves of Grass Each pillow varies. Approximately 11 x 5 x 3-1/2 inches 1980 marks the 125th year anniversary of the publication of Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman’s starry collection of poems celebrating “urbana Americana.” For this occasion, artist Catarina Leitão collaborates with Humanitarians Not Heroes to make a special edition of grass pillows, each individually containing a poem from Leaves of Grass, inserted with the stuffing. So rest easy and symbolically, knowing that Not till the sun excludes you, do I exclude you; |
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