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An audacious, sprawling celebration of the self, nature, and the vibrant tapestry of human existence challenges all poetic boundaries. This groundbreaking collection pulses with a sensual, unrestrained energy that embraces both the divine and the wonderfully ordinary. The rhythmic, free-flowing verses weave together the diverse voices of a vast nation, championing radical equality and boundless love. Controversial, passionate, and deeply spiritual, it is a manifesto of freedom that refuses to be contained by tradition. Experience a breathtaking literary revolution that fundamentally altered the landscape of modern poetry.
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GenrePoetry
Length13 hrs 23 mins
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Publish dateApr 8, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS
26BOOK II
2One’s-Self I Sing
27BOOK III
3As I Ponder’d in Silence
28BOOK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM
4In Cabin’d Ships at Sea
29From Pent-Up Aching Rivers
5To Foreign Lands
30I Sing the Body Electric
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6To a Historian
31A Woman Waits for Me
7To Thee Old Cause
32Spontaneous Me
8Eidolons
33One Hour to Madness and Joy
9For Him I Sing
34Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd
10When I Read the Book
35Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals
11Beginning My Studies
36We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d
12Beginners
37O Hymen! O Hymenee!
13To the States
38I Am He That Aches with Love
14On Journeys Through the States
39Native Moments
15To a Certain Cantatrice
40Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City
16Me Imperturbe
41I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
17Savantism
42Facing West from California’s Shores
18The Ship Starting
43As Adam Early in the Morning
19I Hear America Singing
44BOOK V. CALAMUS
20What Place Is Besieged?
45Scented Herbage of My Breast
21Still Though the One I Sing
46Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
22Shut Not Your Doors
47For You, O Democracy
23Poets to Come
48These I Singing in Spring
24To You
49Not Heaving from My Ribb’d Breast Only
25Thou Reader
50Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances
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