Walt recommends that we, “read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life,” so I loaded up the audio book of Leave of Grass, and have been listening. I’m very excited to have just found http://www.whitmanarchive.org where there is (speculated to be) a recording of Walt from a wax cylinder recording among other great many things.
Walt Whitman’s voice:(?)
[audio:http://www.whitmanarchive.org/multimedia/America.mp3]