Walt Whitman Speaks John Cianca How should it be conducted

How should it be conducted

the corruption of the clergy

a politically powerful banker and judge

Culminating in a grand celebration

and the tradition of appointing widows to open seats

Walt Whitman Speaks John Cianca How should it be conductedTo mark the bicentenary of Walt Whitman's death, Carcanet publishes a distillation from Horace Traubel's conversations with the great American poet. Whitman speaks from the heart, an old man who changed the course of American poetry and, by extension, the poetries of Europe, Asia, Latin America A young journalist and reformer, Traubel visited him nearly every day at his home in Camden, New Jersey. Whitman liked to talk, especially about the big