Robert Haas, Former U.S. Poet Laureate and Local Readers - Walt Whitman's Song of Myself

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DATE : Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:39:02 -0700
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Organized by Eric Karpeles, co-presented by Point Reyes Books In 1855, Whitman published 795 copies of his book Leaves of Grass, paying for publication himself. "Song of Myself," as it came to be known, was the first experiment in long, free-verse poetry—a poem that former U.S. poet laureate and Whitman scholar Robert Hass calls, "the most unprecedented poem in the English language." The poem is Whitman's "song" about democracy and imagination, life and death. Using the 52 numbered sections of the 1891 "Deathbed" edition, local volunteers read Walt Whitman's Song of Myself in its entirety.

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