"My words itch at your ears till you understand them."--"Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman There is a reason the words of Walt Whitman have persisted in American literature, in literature at large, for so long. He was not simply a man of his time, not just a writer for the moment. Whitman was a man of the people and a writer of the soul--the souls of humankind, and the soul of America. Miracles and Vistas: A Walt Whitman Compendium spans...