One of the roughs

Whitman printed the first edition of Leaves of Grass without the author's name on the title page. He used an engraving of himself in laborer's clothes as the frontispiece. Known as "the carpenter," the image is an icon of the American poet as "one of the roughs," or Everyman. Subsequent editions of Leaves depicted different Whitmans, ever more sophisticated and venerable. The elderly Whitman in 1891 reverted to an image of a young and urbane self, taken in Boston when he was working on the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.

Shelf life

Naquele dia, era pouco

o ar que se respirava

nas veias. Um limite de vozes,

sobejo freático de cores e de cifras,

recortava microscópicas raízes

de cordel. Um limite, o cheiro

dos anos. Por vezes,

eram as velas, estanques e verticais,

que articulavam gestos e sinapses.

Eram estas as letras, o ritmo seco

rasgando e quebrando a frescura

do papel. Sem a mágoa do orvalho,

renovava as simetrias do tempo

nas prateleiras e nas paredes

que gemiam a água da tua pele,

as cinzas que se libertavam do meu lápis.

A craving for extraordinary incident

The most effective of these causes are the great national events which are daily taking place, and the increasing accummulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies.

William Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800)

your world//out of life

no real name given.

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get more//out of life

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home: welcome the best

sign://try it now: keep me

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actions add comments

help://sharing home

helps you connect and

edit: what’s the event?

news feed friends

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privacy helps different parts

of your life settings

photos sharing privacy

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people you may know

/easier on the eyes/

create friends: wall works

at home, you may know

people search

friends, edit home

like/unlike//it’s complicated.

forgot my password.

my first name.

my last name.

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