walt whitman then and (sort of) now
I’ve been promoting this all over, but I’m a big fan of the blog A Journey Round My
Skull and got a kick out of this week’s post Poets Ranked by Beard Weight — not least because it
contains the exquisite photo of Whitman (sporting a “Hibernator”) seen above. Coincidentally, I’ve just been
directed to this charming video of a Whitman impersonator, from a new
TV show about books debuting this week: