Specimen Days

''I obey my happy hour''s command, which seems curiously imperative. May-be, if I don''t do anything else, I shall send out the most wayward, spontaneous, fragmentary book ever printed.''One of the best kept secrets of modern autobiographical literature, Whitman''s autobiography moves in brisk, episodic fashion to chronicle the life of one of the world''s best loved and most influential poets. Exp...