How to Celebrate Walt Whitman’s Two-Hundredth Birthday
Loaf at your ease, luxuriating in the poet’s unhurried, insinuated cadences. This year we celebrate the two-hundredth birthday of Walt Whitman; and by “we” I mean all of us who take conscious pleasure in speaking American English. Whitman invented a poetry specific to this language and open to the …
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