When Walt Whitman first published his genre-redefining verse collection Leaves of Grass, he was not going after small game, acknowledging in the preface: The land and sea, the animals, fishes, and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests, mountains, and rivers, are not small themes… Not everybody can match Whitman’s cranked-up barbaric …
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Published on October 04, 2020 05:00