Leaves of Grass Book V: Calamus
by Walt Whitman
39 minutes, 28 seconds
Unabridged Free Verse Poetry Collection
1855
"Calamus" is the fifth book of Walt Whitman's legendary poetry collection Leaves of Grass. In these thirty-nine poems, Whitman compares "athletic love" (or love between two men) to the calamus plant, in terms of diversity and depth. It includes the poems:
Read by Alex Wilson. Sample contains the complete poem "Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances."
Categories: 125 cents, 19th Century AD, 2007 Release, 30-60 minutes, Alex Wilson (Reader), Erotica, Free Verse, Poetry, Poetry Collection, Popular Author, Romance, Walt Whitman
This recording will be released under the Creative Commons Non-Commercial License on March 8, 2012 or after 100,000 purchases, whichever comes first. Read more.
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39 minutes, 28 seconds
Unabridged Free Verse Poetry Collection
1855
"Calamus" is the fifth book of Walt Whitman's legendary poetry collection Leaves of Grass. In these thirty-nine poems, Whitman compares "athletic love" (or love between two men) to the calamus plant, in terms of diversity and depth. It includes the poems:
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In Paths Untrodden Scented Herbage of My Breast Whoever You are, Holding Me now in Hand For You, O Democracy These, I, Singing in Spring Not Heaving from My Ribb'd Breast Only Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances The Base of all Metaphysics Recorders Ages Hence When I heard at the Close of the Day Are You the New person Drawn Toward Me? Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone Not Heat Flames up and Consumes Trickle Drops City of Orgies Behold this Swarthy Face I saw in Louisiana a Live Oak Growing To a Stranger This Moment, Yearning and Thoughtful I Hear It Was Charged Against Me |
The Prairie-Grass Dividing When I Peruse the Conquer’d Fame We Two Boys Together Clinging A Promise to California Here the Frailest Leaves of Me No Labor-Saving Machine A Glimpse A Leaf for Hand in Hand Earth! my Likeness! I Dream'd in a Dream What think You I take my Pen in Hand? To the East and to the West Sometimes with One I Love To a Western Boy Fast Anchor'd, Eternal O Love! Among the Multitude O You Whom I Often and Silently Come That Shadow, my Likeness Full of Life, Now |
Read by Alex Wilson. Sample contains the complete poem "Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances."
Categories: 125 cents, 19th Century AD, 2007 Release, 30-60 minutes, Alex Wilson (Reader), Erotica, Free Verse, Poetry, Poetry Collection, Popular Author, Romance, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was a revolutionary American poet and essayist from Long Island. His multi-volume book of free verse poetry Leaves of Grass obliterated the then-acceptable form and subject limits of poetry.
Alex Wilson is a writer and stage/film actor from northern Ohio and now based in Carrboro, North Carolina. He starred in the North American Premiere of Richard Taylor's musical Whistle Down the Wind and recently filmed The Third Cord with Emmy-nominated director Jack Lucido. His animated comics-parody film All's Fair in Love and Police Actions was recently selected as an iFilm Pick. He is the founder of Telltale Weekly and Spoken Alexandria. See his website for more. [new windows, all].
This recording will be released under the Creative Commons Non-Commercial License on March 8, 2012 or after 100,000 purchases, whichever comes first. Read more.
Posted by alex at March 8, 2007 5:55 PM
