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What We're Reading: How Walt Whitman Used Photography to Curate His Image, But Ended Up More Lost Than Found

By Trevin Corsiglia   Thursday July 3, 2025

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When I read and study Walt Whitman’s poetry, I often imagine what he would’ve done if he had a smartphone and an Instagram account.

Unlike many of his contemporaries, the poet collected an “abundance of photographs” of himself, as Whitman scholar Ed Folsom points out. And like …


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