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Song of Himself

Today on Tablet

by
Marc Tracy
December 05, 2011

If Walt Whitman’s unique, unrhyming, unmetered verse can feel somewhat sacred, well, Whitman himself called it the “Bible of a New Religion.” And, as former staff writer Marissa Brostoff reports today in Tablet Magazine, lawyer Daniel Redman has found in Leaves of Grass something of a queer Torah, perfect for setting to the sort of ritualized chanting he used to hear in synagogue.

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.