walt whitman

‘Walt Whitman Speaks’ and We Should Listen

‘Walt Whitman Speaks’ and We Should Listen

Readers of Library of America's collection of Whitman's late in life thoughts will be hard-pressed to miss the priorities—or their timely relevance—of his clarion call that "American must welcome all—Chinese, Irish, German, pauper or not, criminal or not—all, all, without exceptions: become an asylum for all who choose to come."