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Walt Whitman at Home.(Interview)

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From: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
Date: 20010901
Author:SCHMIDGALL, GARY

Gary Schmidgall is the editor of the recently published volume, Intimate with Walt: Selections from Whitman's Conversations with Horace Traubel, 1888-1892 (University of Iowa Press), which condenses the nearly 5,000 pages of Traubel's transcriptions into a 300-page book Whitman spent the last years of his life living in a small house in Camden, New Jersey; Traubel, a frequent visitor to the house, began to transcribe Whitman conversations just two days after the poet's seventieth birthday During his long visits he would take down everything of more than passing interest uttered by ...

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