A man stands in the front of a classroom.
Text, Walt Whitman's Song of Myself, ILLUSTRATED BY ALLEN CRAWFORD.
He places his notes on a podium and stands behind it. A book in a slip cover. MOBY-DICK IN PICTURES BY MATT KISH. The book is red with a blue person with white eyes with red irises. The slipcover is black with vertical wavy stripes of various colors and patterns on the edge.
A still photo of the book thumbed open. It is full of colorful pages in greens, blues, and reds.
Book, Whitman Illustrated: Song of Myself, ILLUSTRATED BY ALLEN CRAWFORD. The cover is tan with a black illustration of a man with a large thick beard who wears a wide-brimmed hat.
A spread of a red and white illustration. A creature lies down surrounded by words. His face, beard, front chest and arms are human and he holds a leaf in one hand. He has a mushroom collar. He has wings with scales and pointy feathers. He has antlers and a grasshopper on his head. The back portion of his body is goat-like and has a lion tail. Stylized text fits in all over the page, some words turned 90 degrees.
A spread of pages with a black background and a yellow tornado that twists once as it spreads from the lower left corner to the upper right corner of the spread. Wisps flow around the top of the tornado. Words cover the background in all orientations.
A spread of a green and white illustration of a person in a thick, fur-lined, hooded tunic. The person's face is hidden in the hood. They wear thick padded pants, boots, and mittens and hold a harpoon and looped rope in their hands. They jump over a cliff. Words cover the background in all orientations.
A spread of a red moth that covers nearly all of the two pages with its open wings. We look down at the moth's back. Words cover the background in all orientations.
A spread of a black background with a golden ovum in the center surrounded by sperm. Words flow out around the ovum in between the sperm like rays from the sun.
A spread of a green and white illustration of a horizontal skull with leafy designs on its face, large eyes, and a skull cap with embroidered rows of skulls and abstract swirls that oozes off to the left side. Words cover the background in all orientations.
A spread of red and white with a pumpkin on top of the ground wrapped in vines, with roots visible beneath the soil, on the left page and a skull halfway buried in the ground, also wrapped in vines, next to a pumpkin, on the right page. Words cover the background in all orientations. A spread with a black background and a yellow bird with black stripes, scales, and geometric designs throughout in the center of the spread. Words cover the background in all orientations.
A spread of a green background and illustration of a naked man sitting in water with his torso and knees out of the water. He has a beard and wears a hat. He holds a tiny version of himself on his fingers. A small amount of text is printed on this spread.
A red spread with white text and no illustration. Text, I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars.
A spread with a black background on the left and a yellow background on the right. On the left, a yellow snake-like ribbon of text knots and twirls all over. On the right, the ribbon turns black.
The red moth spread.
A spread of a green illustration of a person's lower legs. They wear pants and stand barefoot. Their shadow spreads from both feet towards the bottom right corner of the spread and spreads out in wavy tendrils. Lines from the poem sit in three clusters on the spread.
A spread with a red and white illustration of two spheres linked with willow-like branches that alternate with maple tree-like seeds. Words cover the background curved around the spheres.
A spread of a black background on the left and a yellow background on the right. On the left is a yellow illustration of a man's face. He has a beard and his eyes are black and blank. On the right is an illustration of a woman's face. Her black hair is up in a bun and her eyes are yellow and blank. Words ring both illustrations in ovals.
A green spread with white water lily leaves as seen from below, under water. A small naked man floats in the bottom left corner of the spread. Words cover the background under the water lilies in all orientations.
A spread of words over a bottom row of red blades of grass. Text, I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love. If you want me again, look for me under your boot soles.
A spread of yellow text on a black background with no illustration. Text, Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraging. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.
He tosses his notes to the side.
He moves to the side of the projector screen and gives a thumbs up to us.