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Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song [Paperback]

Jim Perlman (Editor), Ed Folsom (Editor), Dan Campion (Editor)


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October 1, 1997
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.



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Defending Walt Whitman by Sherman Alexie
Walt Whitman Strides The Llano Of New Mexico by Rudolfo Anaya
Ode To Walt Whitman by Stephen Vincent Benet
Whitman In Black by Edmund Joseph Berrigan
Despair by John Berryman
Camden 1892 by Jorge Luis Borges
Walt Whitman by Robert Buchanan
Whitman by Witter Bynner
Walt Whitman by Emanuel Carnevali
Walt Whitman: Whispers Of Heavenly Death Murmur'd I Hear! by Chou Ping
Walt Whitman In The Car Lot, Repo Or Used by Gillian Conoley
Cape Hatteras by Harold Hart Crane
Hopkins To Whitman: From The Lost Correspondence by Philip Dacey
Walt Whitman by Edward Dahlberg
Centennial For Whitman by Richard Ghormley Eberhart
Walt Whitman by Ezequiel Martinez Estrada
Populist Manifesto by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Reading Walt Whitman by Calvin Forbes
Walt Whitman by Zona Gale
Walt Whitman by Felix Ruben Garcia Sarmiento
A Tribute Of Grasses by Hamlin Garland
I Love Old Whitman So by Allen Ginsberg
A Supermarket In California by Allen Ginsberg
For Walt Whitman by Patricia Goedicke
Ode To Walt Whitman by Michael Gold
Crossing Brooklyn Bridge At 4 O'clock In The Morning, August 4th, 1979 by Calvin C. Hernton
Walt Whitman by Edwin Honig
Old Walt by James Langston Hughes
Communion by David Ignatow
Waiting Inside by David Ignatow
Letters To Walt Whitman by Ronald Johnson
168th Chorus From Mexico City Blues by John Kerouac
Kosmos by Yusef Komunyakaa
Retort To Whitman by David Herbert Lawrence
A Common Ground, Sels by Denise Levertov
Whitman by Larry Levis
To W.w. by George Cabot Lodge
Ode To Walt Whitman by Federico Garcia Lorca
Walt Whitman by Edwin Markham
Petit, The Poet by Edgar Lee Masters
Revolutionary Frescoes-the Ascension by Thomas Mcgrath
To Walt Whitman by Cincinnatus Heine Miller
Countersong To Walt Whitman: Song Of Ourselves, Sels by Pedro Mir
Reaching Around by Judith Moffett
A Modern Poet by Howard Nemerov
Nurse Whitman by Sharon Olds
I, Menicus, Pupil Of The Master by Charles Olson
The Orange Bears by Kenneth Patchen
Salutation To Walt Whitman by Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa
A Pact by Ezra Pound
I Begin By Invoking Walt Whitman by Naftali Ricardo Reyes Basuato
Ode To Walt Whitman by Naftali Ricardo Reyes Basuato
To Walt Whitman, From Some Younger English Friends by Ernest Rhys
Walt Whitman by Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Abyss, Sels: 2 by Theodore Roethke
Walt Whitman by Morris Rosenfeld
Face On The Daguerreotype by Norman Rosten
Pacific Ideas-a Letter To Walt Whitman by Louis Simpson
Walt Whitman At Bear Mountain by Louis Simpson
With Walt Whitman At Fredericksburg by Dave Smith
Some Notes On Whitman For Allen Joyce by Jack Spicer
For You, Walt Whitman by William Edgar Stafford
Like Decorations In A Nigger Cemetery, Sels by Wallace Stevens
To Walt Whitman In America by Algernon Charles Swinburne
For Whitman by Diane Wakoski
Over Colorado by Derek Walcott
The Good Grey Poet by Theodore Russell Weiss
Fastball by Jonathan Williams
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

  • Paperback: 536 pages
  • Publisher: Holy Cow! Press; 2nd edition (October 1, 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0930100786
  • ISBN-13: 978-0930100780
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,566,285 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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DEAR SIR-I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of "LEAVES OF GRASS." Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unseen buds, indicative words, good gray poet, cradle endlessly rocking, whatever insults, democratic vistas
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