
Walt Whitman
Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast
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Walt Whitman's on the Beach at Night
Walt whitman wrote a 13 part series called manly training for an american magazine in which he praises things like naked sun bathing and coal baths. He's very keen on the physical as well, although he's quite cosmic. Iam a tremendous fan of strangeness in all its manifestations. i would read a poem from a penguin little black classic, which are tiny books, which retailt 80 pence each. There is one called on the beach at night alone, which is poetry of walt whitman. And it's really good. Some fabulous stopini, lots of poems from whitman's epic collection, leaves of grass, no leaves of grass,. Very quickly,
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