John O’Keefe's Adaptation of
Walt Whitman’S SONG OF MYSELF
Performed by John O’Keefe

"It isn't just O’Keefe’s wondrously musical voice – an instrument that captures the thrilling electricity, penetrates the heights and plumbs the resonant depths to make the words written in 1855 seem startlingly fresh... he's captured the words’ music to a degree that makes the verse viscerally immediate. More than that, he embodies Whitman's radically democratic, all-embracing vision of America as a ‘nation of many nations.’ We could certainly use more of that in these fractious times.”

—Robert Hurwitt
San Francisco Chronicle

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"O’Keefe the performer is masterful at communicating the sweeping, everlasting audacity of the poem in all its musicality, iconoclasm, sensuality, boundless wisdom, and bravado."

—Robert Avila
The San Francisco Bay Guardian

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