Walt Whitman, Taking Poetic License With His Image

The Washington Post | April 12, 2005| | Copyright

O Walt Whitman! Bard of America! Poet of Democracy! Singer of the body electric! Barbaric yawper!

O Walt Whitman! Sage! Crank! Crackpot! Dirty old man! Lovable old coot! Rest stop on the Jersey Turnpike!

O Walt Whitman! Writer and re-writer and obsessive re-re-writer of his masterpiece, "Leaves of Grass," the book Bill gave Monica on the night he . . .

O. Sorry about that. I guess I got a tad carried away there. I have been reading the special Whitman issue of VQR: The Virginia Quarterly Review, and I just couldn't stop myself from parodying Whitman, who is, along with Hemingway, the most ...

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