Walt Whitman Speaks Needles Tessie has elected herself president

Tessie has elected herself president of the crime-stopping Mutual Admiration Society―as if dealing with her “sad madness” over the tragic drowning of her beloved father

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Walt Whitman Speaks Needles Tessie has elected herself presidentToward the end of his life, Walt Whitman was visited almost daily at his home in Camden, New Jersey, by the young poet and social reformer Horace Traubel. After each visit, Traubel meticulously recorded their conversation, transcribing with such sensitivity that Whitmans friend John Burroughs remarked that he felt he could almost hear the poet breathing. In Walt Whitman Speaks, acclaimed author Brenda Wineapple draws from Traubels extensive interviews