Todos somos Whitman / We Are All Whitman

“Whitman, we are your epitaph, I and everyone / or better yet, you live in us since you told us / that each atom of your body was also ours, / just as we, like you, are the summer’s and all the seasons’ grass,” Luis Alberto Ambroggio writes in this poetic homage to the great American poet.

Ambroggio was inspired to respond to Whitman’s work after translating a series of essays about Song of Myself. This collection of 53 poems in English and Spanish is the result. Sometimes he includes a line...