
Lines from Walt Whitman ~ Antonio Frasconi
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969
Admittedly, I wasn't much of a reader as a child. I loved children's books, but I was more of the make-believe play sort of girl. Probably too social and self-absorbed to fully appreciate the value of a good book. It wasn't until a high school English teacher introduced me to Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass that a book spoke to me directly. It was as if Walt had written it expressly for me.



And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became,
And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day,
Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
That's the great thing about books.
They have a habit of finding you at exactly the right moment.


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1 comment:
Beautiful book. I love the combination of Whitman's poems with Franzoni's lovely woodcuts!
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