Walt Whitman's Life #5: Building Houses & Writing Poems
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An episode from 3/28/21: This is the fifth in a series of readings from biographies of Walt Whitman. Tonight, I continue with \\u2060\\u2060Paul Zweig\'s Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet\\u2060\\u2060, which focuses on the years preceding the publication of Leaves of Grass. Here, we move closer to the writing of Leaves of Grass, which coincided with Whitman and his family\'s work in building and selling houses in Brooklyn.
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