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Walt Whitman Hoax
From: Weekend Sunday (NPR)
Date: 19971123
Author:Douglas Brinkley, Liane Hansen
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LIANE HANSEN, HOST: The poet speaks. Or does he? WEEKEND EDITION
poetry commentator Douglas Brinkley has stumbled upon a hoax.
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY, WEEKEND EDITION POETRY COMMENTATOR: When Walt Whitman died on March 26, 1892 at his cottage in Camden, New Jersey, he left behind one of the most important books of free verse poetry ever composed: "Leaves of Grass." But the romantic bard ostensibly left behind another memento: a wax cylinder containing his own voice, a scratchy recording of himself reading from his 1888 poem, "America." As the story ...
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