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 - Whitman, Walt, KW - Poets, American KW - 19th century KW - Biography KW - Juvenile literature KW - Nurses KW - United States KW - American poets KW - sears KW - History KW - Civil War, 1861-1865 KW - Medical care KW - 1861-1865, Civil War N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Wilson's Children; Wilson's Junior High School; School Library Journal starred; 6.6; Follett Library Resources; 3-6; Follett Library Resources; 3-6; AD970L; Lexile 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 -