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Preface to Leaves of Grass

"This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals..."

Any Good Poem

Richard Berlin, MD, shares the "Preface to Leaves of Grass" by the classic American poet Walt Whitman.

Dr Berlin has been writing a poem about his experience of being a doctor every month for the past 25 years in Psychiatric Times™ in a column called “Poetry of the Times.” He is instructor in psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts. His latest book is Freud on My Couch.

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