Walt Whitman

by Perlman, Jim; Folsom, Ed; Campion, Dan

• ISBN13: 9780930100780
• ISBN10: 0930100786
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-10-01
• Publisher: Holy Cow Pr

Summary

First published to wide critical acclaim in 1981, this revised and expanded monumental anthology charts the ongoing American and international response to the legacy of the seminal poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892). Beginning with Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous 1855 letter ("I greet you at the beginning of a great career..."), this new edition contains responses from Thoreau, Pound, Lawrence, Neruda, Borges, Ginsberg, Jordan, Duncan, Le Sueur, Rich, Snyder and Alexie, among many others. "I know of no more convincing proof of Walt Whitman's impact upon the poetic mind (both at home and abroad) than this collection of tributes by poets -- in prose and verse" -- Gay Wilson Allen, The Solitary Singer.Includes 17 black & white photos.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Table of Illustrations
Preface
"Talking Back to Walt Whitman: An Introduction,"	p. 21
A Letter to Whitman	p. 79
A Letter to Harrison Blake	p. 80
From a Letter to W. D. O'Connor	p. 82
"To Walt Whitman in America"	p. 83
"To Walt Whitman"	p. 89
"To Walt Whitman from Some Younger English Friends"	p. 90
From a Letter to Robert Bridges	p. 91
"Walt Whitman"	p. 93
A Letter to Walt Whitman	p. 94
"Walt Whitman"	p. 96
"A Tribute of Grasses"	p. 97
From "Walt Whitman"	p. 98
"Walt Whitman"	p. 102
"Walt Whitman"	p. 103
"Whitman"	p. 104
"To W. W."	p. 106
"A Pact"	p. 111
"What I Feel About Walt Whitman"	p. 112
"Salutation to Walt Whitman"	p. 114
"Petit, the Poet"	p. 122
"Walt Whitman"	p. 123
"Whitman"	p. 124
"Whitman"	p. 125
"Retort to Whitman"	p. 134
"[Bouquets and Brickbats]"	p. 135
"Walt Whitman"	p. 141
"Cape Hatteras"	p. 145
From "Whitman and Tennyson"	p. 152
"Walt Whitman"	p. 154
"Walt Whitman"	p. 157
"Ode to Walt Whitman"	p. 158
"Walt Whitman"	p. 163
"Walt Whitman"	p. 165
"Ode to Walt Whitman"	p. 168
"Ode to Walt Whitman"	p. 172
"Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery"	p. 184
"The Ceaseless Rings of Walt Whitman"	p. 185
"Old Walt"	p. 190
"The Orange Bears"	p. 191
"Whitman and the Problem of Good"	p. 192
"Countersong to Walt Whitman: Song of Ourselves"	p. 201
"Walt Whitman"	p. 205
"The American Idiom"	p. 208
"A Supermarket in California"	p. 213
"168th Chorus"	p. 215
"Some Notes on Whitman for Allen Joyce"	p. 216
"Centennial for Whitman"	p. 218
"Comments"	p. 222
"Walt Whitman"	p. 223
"Ode to Walt Whitman"	p. 225
"I Begin By Invoking Walt Whitman"	p. 230
"We Live in A Whitmanesque Age"	p. 231
"Camden, 1982"	p. 234
"Note on Walt Whitman"	p. 235
"Fastball"	p. 241
"Song of Myself: Intention and Substance"	p. 243
"Despair"	p. 250
From "A Common Ground"	p. 251
"The Delicacy of Walt Whitman"	p. 253
"Communion"	p. 269
"Son to Father"	p. 270
"Waiting Inside"	p. 271
"Walt Whitman at Bear Mountain"	p. 272
"Pacific Ideas - A Letter to Walt Whitman"	p. 274
From "The Abyss"	p. 275
"Walt Whitman"	p. 276
"A Modern Poet"	p. 279
"Letters to Walt Whitman"	p. 280
"I, Mencius, Pupil of the Master ..."	p. 282
"Introduction"	p. 285
"Populist Manifesto"	p. 295
"Face on the Daguerreotype"	p. 299
"Reading Walt Whitman"	p. 300
"Over Colorado"	p. 301
"With Walt Whitman at Fredericksburg"	p. 302
"Hopkins to Whitman"	p. 304
"Whitman in Black"	p. 307
"For You, Walt Whitman"	p. 308
"The Good Grey Poet"	p. 309
"For Whitman"	p. 312
"Whitman's Indicative Words"	p. 313
"Allen Ginsberg on Walt Whitman: Composed on the Tongue"	p. 329
"I Love Old Whitman So"	p. 353
"Honoring Whitman"	p. 354
"Essay Beginning and Ending with Poems for Whitman"	p. 358
"To Love the Earth: Some Thoughts on Walt Whitman"	p. 366
"I Teach Straying from Me - Yet Who Can Stray from Me?"	p. 371
"Whitman"	p. 376
"Crossing Brooklyn Bridge ..."	p. 378
"For Walt Whitman"	p. 379
"The Mayflower Moment: Reading Whitman During the Vietnam War"	p. 381
"Reaching Around"	p. 395
"Revolutionary Frescoes - The Ascension"	p. 400
"My Doubts About Whitman"	p. 402
"For the Sake of a People's Poetry: Walt Whitman and the Rest of Us"	p. 411
"Jelly Roll"	p. 421
"Nurse Whitman"	p. 425
"The Adventure of Whitman's Line"	p. 426
"Walt Whitman in the Car Lot, Repo or Used"	p. 442
"Beginners"	p. 447
"Walt Whitman's New World, Old World"	p. 452
"How I Came to Walt Whitman and Found Myself"	p. 455
"Loving Walt Whitman and the Problem of America"	p. 457
"On Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass"	p. 466
"Kosmos"	p. 470
"Walt Whitman: Whispers of Heavenly Death Murmur'd I Hear!"	p. 473
"Defending Walt Whitman"	p. 474
"Walt Whitman Strides the Llano of New Mexico"	p. 476
The Poets Respond: A Bibliographic Chronology	p. 482
Notes on Contributors	p. 517
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