Status Updates From Leaves of Grass

I give you my sprig of lilac.

I’m welcoming America’s 250th anniversary by reading who else but our greatest bard. All of the unrivaled art that America has contributed in literature, music, and film is indebted to the form Whitman inaugurated. This edition also includes Whitman’s original introduction to the 1855 edition which apparently never appeared in the later editions of Leaves of Grass. Every American should read it this July 4th.