Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love” Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich, Towards the end of his life in 1888, he added “America” to his collection “Leaves of Grass,” and then recited four lines from the poem, onto a wax cylinder recording, before he died (it is the only record of his voice in existence):Īll, all alike endear’d, grown, ungrown, young or old, “I have sometimes thought, indeed, that the sole avenue and means of a reconstructed sociology depended, primarily, on a new birth, elevation, expansion, invigoration of woman.” The confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was politically divisive, but Walt Whitman’s 19th century wisdom is timeless.
Moon’s description at Vimeo is worth quoting in full: as part of a week-long Whitman bicentennial celebration. They’ll also be screened the same evening in Washington, D.C. That’s when the whole trilogy will be posted to, to mark Whitman’s 200th birthday. But we’ll have to wait until May 31 to find out. Paul Moon, “a filmmaker whose body of work includes short and feature-length documentaries, dance films, and experimental cinema, featured and awarded at over a hundred film festivals worldwide.” Paul tells me that he’s currently shooting the last part, a setting of Civil War poems, in the Richmond, Virginia area right now, and based on what he did with “America”, I’m guessing that that film may not shy away from contemporary political references. This is part of a trilogy of Whitman poetry films by H. A recording of Whitman’s own reading of “America” is juxtaposed with shots of demonstrators in Washington, D.C., minutes after the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, to great and moving effect.
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