To mark the bicentenary of Walt Whitman's death, Carcanet publishesa distillation from Horace Traubel's conversations with the great American poet. Whitman speaks from the heart, an old man whochanged the course of American poetry and, by extension,...

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is the authentic voice of democratic America. After a childhood in Brooklyn, he spent many years in and around Manhattan and Washington, where he witnessed troops returning from the Civil War and tended wounded soldiers in th...