Visiting Walt : Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Walt Whitman

by Tammaro, Thom

• ISBN13: 9780877458548
• ISBN10: 0877458545
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Iowa Pr

Summary

Sheila Coghill and Thom Tammaro offers one hundred poems by one hundred poets that celebrate the father of American Poetry, Walt Whitman.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Ed Folsom	xi
Expecting the Main Things	xiii
Sherman Alexie
Defending Walt Whitman	1	(2)
Eugenio de Andrade
Walt Whitman and the Birds	3	(1)
Aliki Barnstone
Wild With It	4	(2)
Tony Barnstone
Hair of the Field	6	(3)
Willis Barnstone
Jiang Yuying, Famous Professor at Beijing University, Who Daringly Rendered into Chinese the First Complete Walt Whitman	9	(2)
Marvin Bell
Whitman's Grass	11	(2)
Joe Benevento
May 31, 1989	13	(2)
Ted Berrigan
Whitman in Black	15	(1)
John Berryman
Despair	16	(1)
Robert Bly
This Night: For Walt Whitman	17	(1)
Jorge Luis Borges
Camden, 1892	18	(1)
Michael Dennis Browne
Your Sister	19	(1)
Joseph Bruchac
Canticle	20	(1)
Edward Byrne
Early Evening	21	(2)
Thomas Centolella
Small Acts	23	(2)
Nicholas Christopher
Walt Whitman at the Reburial of Poe	25	(2)
David Citino
Walt Whitman in New Orleans, 1848	27	(1)
Jonathan Cohen
Walt Whitman in Ohio	28	(1)
Gillian Conoley
Walt Whitman in the Car Lot, Repo or Used	29	(2)
David Cope
Labor Day	31	(1)
Bruce Cutler
February 12, 1865	32	(2)
Philip Dacey
Whitman: The Wall	34	(1)
Toi Derricotte
Whitman, Come Again to the Cities	35	(1)
W.S. Di Piero
Walt, the Wounded	36	(3)
Mark Doty
Letter to Walt Whitman	39	(10)
Richard Eberhart
Centennial for Whitman	49	(4)
Lynn Emanuel
Walt, I Salute You!	53	(2)
Martin Espada
Another Nameless Prostitute Says the Man Is Innocent	55	(2)
Dave Etter
Green-Eyed Boy after Reading Whitman and Sandburg	57	(1)
Richard Fein
To Walt Whitman	58	(4)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Poem for Old Walt	62	(1)
Calvin Forbes
Reading Walt Whitman	63	(1)
Randall Freisinger
Walt Whitman at Timber Creek	64	(2)
Daisy Fried
A Story Having to Do with Walt Whitman	66	(2)
Thomas Gannon
Meeting the Master	68	(1)
Suzanne Gardinier
Memorials	69	(1)
Allen Ginsberg
I Love Old Whitman So	70	(1)
Jesse Glass
Lecturing on Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson in China	71	(2)
Patricia Goedicke
For Walt Whitman	73	(2)
Albert Goldbarth
The Poem of the Praises	75	(4)
Beckian Fritz Goldberg
Whitman's Confession: In the Cleft of Eternity	79	(2)
David Graham
The Varied Carol	81	(2)
Matthew Graham
Matthew Brady Speaks of Whitman	83	(1)
Jim Harrison
Ghazal XXXIX	84	(1)
William Heyen
Bread	85	(2)
Edward Hirsch
Whitman Leaves the Boardwalk	87	(1)
Daniel Hoffman
Crossing Walt Whitman Bridge	88	(3)
Edwin Honig
[Walt Whitman]	91	(1)
Paul Hoover
Whitman in a Corner	92	(2)
Langston Hughes
Old Walt	94	(1)
T.R. Hummer
Walt Whitman in Hell	95	(16)
David Ignatow
Walt Whitman in the Civil War Hospitals	111	(1)
Gray Jacobik
Under the Sign of Walt Whitman	112	(1)
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Walt Whitman	113	(1)
Erica Jong
Testament (Or, Homage to Walt Whitman)	114	(5)
John Judson
Whitman Again	119	(1)
Yusef Komunyakaa
Kosmos	120	(3)
Steve Kowit
A Whitman Portrait	123	(2)
Norbert Krapf
A Civil War Veteran from Indiana Recalls Visiting with Walt Whitman in a Washington Hospital	125	(3)
Mark Kraushaar
Dear Mr. Whitman,	128	(2)
Philip Levine
I Sing the Body Electric	130	(2)
Larry Levis
Whitman	132	(2)
Federico Garcia Lorca
Ode to Walt Whitman	134	(5)
Thomas Lux
Walt Whitman's Brain Dropped on Laboratory Floor	139	(1)
David Mason
A Whit for Whitman	140	(1)
Lynne McMahon
Hopkins and Whitman	141	(2)
Gary Miranda
Second-Born Son: Lines for Walt Whitman Composed on Nantucket Island	143	(3)
Roger Mitchell
To Walt Whitman on America's Birthday	146	(2)
Judith Moffett
Reaching Around	148	(6)
Stanley Moss
Postcard to Walt Whitman from Siena	154	(1)
Howard Nelson
Reading "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" on a Summer Morning	155	(1)
Howard Nemerov
A Modern Poet	156	(1)
Pablo Neruda
Ode to Walt Whitman	157	(5)
Sharon Olds
Nurse Whitman	162	(1)
Anthony Piccione
With Whitman at the Friendship Hotel	163	(1)
Stanley Plumly
Reading with the Poets	164	(2)
Ezra Pound
A Pact	166	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Walt Whitman	167	(1)
Larry Rottmann
A Porter on the Trail	168	(2)
Ira Sadoff
Against Whitman	170	(1)
Terrence Savoie
Reading Whitman's Democratic Vistas	171	(2)
James Schevill
Whitman Stock-Taking, Cataloguing	173	(2)
Shane Seely
Walt Whitman at the Irish Festival, Syracuse, New York: Four Snapshots	175	(1)
Robert B. Shaw
Last Days in Camden	176	(7)
Louis Simpson
Walt Whitman at Bear Mountain	183	(2)
Floyd Skloot
Whitman Pinch Hits, 1861	185	(2)
Dave Smith
With Walt Whitman at Fredericksburg	187	(2)
George Jay Smith
When Helen Keller Spoke	189	(2)
William Stafford
For You, Walt Whitman	191	(1)
Gerald Stern
from "Hot Dog"	192	(4)
Tim Suermondt
Briefly Eavesdropping on Walt Whitman, Virginia, 1863	196	(1)
Phil Tabakow
Walt Whitman at Pfaff's: A Fantasy	197	(1)
Eric Torgersen
An Apple from Walt Whitman	198	(1)
David Wagoner
Walt Whitman Bathing	199	(1)
Diane Wakoski
For Whitman	200	(1)
Anne Waldman
On Walt Whitman's Birthday	201	(1)
Theodore Weiss
The Good Grey Poet	202	(3)
Gail White
Walt Whitman Encounters the Cosmos with the Cats of New York	205	(1)
Wang Yin
Walt Whitman	206	(1)
Jake Adam York
Walt Whitman in Alabama	207	(4)
Notes on Contributors	211	(14)
Permissions	225	(8)
Index to Titles	233