Allen Crawford su Walt Whitman
Whitman wanted to create a new form of verse, one that was indigenous to America. He wanted to break free not only in form but also in content: he sought complete candor, not allegory or symbolism.
His sensibility was American: exuberant, rough, and wild. He reveled in the vitality and sublimity of the physical. He exalted the nature around and within us. His work is an expression of primal joy: He celebrated our animal senses, and the pleasures of being alive.
Whitman illuminated
Di Leaves of grass ho tre copie: una nella libreria qui davanti a me, una nella casa di Milano e una che tengo nella mia cameretta in campagna. Ogni tanto mi ci immergo per una mezz'oretta e ne esco rinnovato, come accade sempre con certi dischi di Bob Dylan e di Neil Young che di quella sensibilita' selvatica sono eredi.
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