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TIME TO CELEBRATE.(author Michael Cunningham portrays poet Walt Whitman in new novel)(Brief Article)

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From: Newsweek
Date: 20050530
Author:Setoodeh, Ramin

Byline: RAMIN SETOODEH

Is walt whitman about to make a comeback? He takes center stage in Michael Cunningham's latest novel, "Specimen Days" (June 7) and you remember what happened when Cunningham put Virginia Woolf in "The Hours." (Everyone rushed to read, or reread, "Mrs. Dalloway.") Stay ahead of the pack: Whitman is best known for "Leaves of Grass" his collection of poems, first published in 1855, about nature and mankind. You might want to brush up, because excerpts appear in Cunningham's novel. To learn more about the poet's life, try "Walt Whitman's America: A ...

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