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EARTH! My likeness!

Though you look so impassive,

ample and spheric there,

I now suspect that is not all;

I now suspect there is something fierce in you,

eligible to burst forth;

For an athlete is enamoured of me – and I of him,

But toward him there is something fierce and terrible in me,

eligible to burst forth,

I dare not tell it in words –

not even in these songs.

-Walt Whitman, Calamus Thirty-six, Leaves of Grass

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An engraving of Walt Whitman by Gaylord Schanilec from the Spring 2005 issue of VQR; printed beside Gregory Orr’s poem, “Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved”

Today marks the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birthday. We celebrate the bicentennial with a reading of #CrossingBrooklynFerry by Brooklynites, filmed across the borough #Whitman loved and in our libraries. #whitman200
Full video: bklynlib.org/crossingbrooklynferry
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WHITMAN: 1973 THE BRADY BUNCH Magic Slate

WHITMAN: 1961 Giant Playmate GERALD GIRAFFE Paper Craft Kit

WHITMAN: 1971 Groovy BARBIE Magic Paper Doll

WHITMAN: 1964 Walt Disney DISNEYLAND Game

“Walt Whitman’s Gift,” a recent essay published by Lapham’s Quarterly, explores the importance of a painting titled “The Tea Party” owned by the Kislak Center. One of three paintings by the London-born artist Herbert Gilchrist held here, “‘The Tea Party’ dwells in a nebulous state of suspended conversation. No one looks at each other … In a posture of still meditation, Walt Whitman smells a red flower.” Professor Don James McLaughlin argues that, “among Gilchrist’s and Whitman’s friends at the time of the painting’s creation, 1882–84, the import of the scene would have been inseparable from the story of Herbert’s notably absent older sister, the widely connected and beloved physician Dr. Beatrice Gilchrist.” Created in the years following Beatrice’s sudden death, “The Tea Party” echoes a feeling the doctor’s mother distilled in her epitaph: “Faithful unto Death. Many hearts mourn her. In her short career did she by skill, tenderness, and unwearied devotion to duty bring healing and comfort to many both here and in America.” For more on the life of Beatrice Gilchrist and the significance of “The Tea Party,” you can find the essay “Walt Whitman’s Gift” at: www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/walt-whitmans-gift

Some envelopes addressed by Walt Whitman, late 1800s.

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