TY - BOOK AU - Kerley,Barbara AU - Selznick,Brian TI - Walt Whitman: words for America SN - 0439357918 AV - PS3232 .K47 2004 U1 - 811/.3B 22 PY - 2004/// CY - New York PB - Scholastic Press KW - Poets, American KW - 19th century KW - Biography KW - Juvenile literature KW - Nurses KW - United States N1 - Z; 970; Lexile; Z; Raz-Plus N2 - A biography of the American poet whose compassion led him to nurse soldiers during the Civil War, to give voice to the nation's grief at Lincoln's assassination, and to capture the true American spirit in verse ER -