My thanks to Richard Schaefers for suggesting another book about Walt Whitman's poetry that might make a fine companion to Live Oak, with Moss, which we discussed this past May. Mark Doty's What Is the Grass (W.W. Norton, 2020) also comes with illustrations (albeit not as many as Live Oak offers). Reviewing the book in the Washington Post, Scott Bradfield said: "What Is the Grass doesn't possess a single inelegant sentence or poorly expressed thought. ... An excellent opportunity to re-examine the work of one of America's first major poets through the prose of one of its best living ones."
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