A review by readingoverbreathing
Walt Whitman: The Complete Poems by Walt Whitman

4.0

" . . . read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life . . . dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body."

I could have done without Whitman's overzealous patriotism, but the genius of his work is beautiful and utterly undeniable.