Whitman: Song of MyselfLength: 58:00. ""Walt Whitman: Song of Myself" explores how a 36-year old freelance journalist and part-time house-builder living in Brooklyn created his outrageous, groundbreaking work, Leaves of Grass. This collection of twelve poems that irrevocably altered the development of poetry and literature shattered existing notions of poetry, breaking all existing conventions in terms of subject matter, language, and style. Hosted by Carl Hancock Rux, we join Whitman on a walk through the urban streets, imagining the sights, sounds and music, from Stephen Foster to Italian opera, that profoundly affected him and indelibly shaped his poetry. In this hour-long special, you will hear from writers, poets, musicians, and scholars who tell the story of this extraordinary, self-styled celebrity...