Live Oak, with Moss: Walt Whitman’s Secret Love Poems
New York Public Library 476 Fifth Avenue, New YorkAs he was turning forty, Walt Whitman composed a sequence of twelve poems and compiled them in a small handmade book he entitled Live Oak, With Moss—but never exactly published them. The verses describe an unhappy love affair with an unnamed man and are considered among the most adventurous and homoerotic work he ever wrote. Whitman [...]