When I first read Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass in college, I knew I had found a soul mate. Long before the discovery of black holes, he wrote: "The bright suns I see, and the dark suns I cannot see, ...
"I lean and loafe at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass." This summer marks the 150th anniversary of Walt Whitman's exuberant free-verse work Leaves of Grass. Published in July 1855, the ...