Started reviving the Whitman songs

Following Twyla Tharp’s example, I made a folder for the Whitman songs, wrote out the texts I had chosen (that almost felt like setting them free from the notebook they were in!), read up a bit in Walt Whitman’s life and followed a random lead which had come to me while Reading the poems (Patricia Wrightson’s The Nargun and the Stars, a book I hated as a child, but on reading the section on Google books I found the descriptive writing at the start to be quite beautiful. Totally lost interest the moment she started in on the narrative though. Guess it’s still not for me). Then I downloaded Leaves of Grass, some Whitman essays, some essays by Emerson and Henry David Thoreau’s Walden onto my iPod for some related reading. I can feel ideas beginning to peep out already!

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