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I Hear America Raking; My Strange Visit to Spiff Up Walt Whitman's Camden, N.J., Tomb

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19970907
Author:Erik W. Linden

Off the top of my head I know very little about Walt Whitman, though probably more than most Americans: I know that I recently heard the poet Rita Dove speak of Whitman's compassion when he was a nurse during the Civil War. I know that Whitman spent some time in Washington, D.C., because I was raised here and it's one of those things you learn in junior high school.

Most of all, I know that when I was hiking in the Shenandoah mountains last summer as part of an Iron-Johnish bachelor party to celebrate the coming marriage of a good friend, the high point for me was standing in a tiny ...

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