“The American Experience : Walt Whitman” is a program about Walt Whitman’s life and his literary work. It consists of eleven video clips that represent each of important periods in the life of this great poet. The introduction is very exciting. The video starts with the reading of his lines, love scene by the river […]
On the 150th anniversary of publishing the third edition of “Leaves of Grass”, facsimile edition has been published. The covers of the book remind Whitmaniacs how it looked like so many years ago. Instead of looking up for the old texts on the internet, readers can have this old-new edition in their hands. Whitman’s 1860 […]
O DROPS of me! trickle, slow drops, Candid, from me falling—drip, bleeding drops, From wounds made to free you whence you were prisoned, From my face—from my forehead and lips, From my breast—from within where I was con- cealed—Press forth, red drops—confession drops, Stain every page—stain every song I sing, every word I say, bloody […]
” I do not press my finger across my mouth, I keep as delicate around the bowels as around the head and heart, Copulation is no more rank to me than death is. I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing hearing and feeling are miracles, and each part and tag of me is […]