Poetry
Leaves of Grass
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA poet declares himself equal to grass, to America, to the reader holding the book, and mostly makes the claim stick through sheer accumulating momentum. Whitman kept revising it his entire life, so the edition you are holding is only ever one snapshot of an argument he never stopped having with himself. Read it aloud if the reading room is empty; it was written for a voice, not just an eye.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 8 hr 15 min
- Where to find it
- On the Poetry shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #1322. In the public domain in the United States.