Walt Whitman of Cosmic Folklore will change the way we think not just about Whitman, but about our relationship to poetry. In the space of these inspired dialogues, lyric essays, and poems, Botsford takes us back and forth across oceans of the imagination, of time and space, to arrive finally back where we started: contemplating a body of literature, only now reinvigorated with deep spiritual energy and laden with the fullness of the enlightened soul. Reading this is unlike no other reading you will do. It transcends the borders of genre, time, imagination, and crosses over into the purely experiential. Alan Botsford, and Walt Whitman himself, dare you to stand on the precipice of true art, sway back and forth in awe, and to fall in.

Alan Botsford is an associate professor at Kanto Gakuin University in Japan and co-edits Poetry Kanto, a bilingual journal of the interplay of voices East, West, and beyond.  His previous poetry collections are A Book of Shadows and mamaist: learning a new language, of which Japan Times says, "Like the Dadaists his title borrows and departs from, [Botsford] throws out convention to create a new art...he breathes new life into words by the sheer brilliance of his constructions."