Walt Whitman Speaks: His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America

by Walt Whitman

Horace Traubel and Brenda Wineapple (Editor)

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For the Whitman bicentennial, a delightful keepsake edition of the incomparable wisdom of America's greatest poet, distilled from his fascinating late-in-life conversations with Horace Traubel.

Toward the end of his life, Walt Whitman was visited almost daily at his home in Camden, New Jersey, by the young poet and social reformer Horace Traubel. After each visit, Traubel meticulously recorded their conversation, transcribing with such sensitivity that Whitman’s friend John Burroughs remarked that he felt he could almost hear the poet breathing. In Walt Whitman Speaks, acclaimed author Brenda Wineapple draws from Traubel’s extensive interviews an extraordinary gathering of...Read more
  • ISBN10 1598536141
  • ISBN13 9781598536140
  • Publish Date 23 April 2019
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint The Library of America