It was Thurston Moore who came up with the title of the album, which is inspired by Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.
He outfits a green van with a bunk, a camping stove, a portable toilet and a copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and John Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks.
Just as the Guggenheim money was running out, Weston was invited to illustrate a new edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.
The episode is titled after poem 271 of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, a book which is featured prominently in the series.
•
Rummaging for reading material, he finds Walter's copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass under some magazines in the bathroom, the same copy given to Walter by Gale Boetticher.
The company's first book was a replica of the original 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, the collection of twelve poems written by Walt Whitman that he had published himself.
He also created several literary illustrations, notably those for Jorge Luis Borges' Spanish-language translation of Walt Whitman's poem Leaves of Grass.
"Les Fleurs du Mal" by Charles Baudelaire and "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman appear as cybernetic extensions of themselves, owned by the protagonist and referred to as "Flowers" and "Leaves" respectively.
In later years, a monumental choral symphony in ten movements was also completed in honor of the poet Walt Whitman titled Leaves of Grass
grass | Günter Grass | Leaves of Grass | The Grass Roots | leaves | House of Leaves | Splendor in the Grass | New Grass Revival | Grass Valley, California | The Grass Harp | Mittendorf's striped grass mouse | GRASS GIS | Splendor in the Grass (album) | Green Grass and High Tides | GRASS | buffalo grass | Wild Grass | The One Where Michael Leaves | The Green Green Grass | The Grass Is Greener | The Grass Is Blue | The Death of Grass | St. Augustine Grass | Leaves' Eyes | Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves | In the Grass | Grass Valley | Grass Snake | Grass | Elephant grass |
The song "Boys from Oklahoma" plays as the credits roll in the movie Leaves of Grass starring Edward Norton and Susan Sarandon.
The text was adapted from Whitman's Leaves of Grass (the Drum-Taps section), and Swayne (2011) describes it as the last of Schuman's pieces as, "a self-styled occasional progressive".
When Walt Whitman came to Boston in March 1860 to meet the publishers for his third edition of Leaves of Grass, he spent a day with Emerson, who had been one of Whitman’s earliest supporters, to discuss his new poems.
Sea-Drift, a section of Walt Whitman's poem Leaves of Grass