Essential Whitman
Walt Whitman
144 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0880014792
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Language: English
Publish: December 10, 1999
The poems of Walt Whitman meant little to me when I read them in high school and college. Lucidly, when I was teaching at the University of Grenoble in my late twenties, I was required to give a course on Whitman. My experience of Leaves of Grass then was intense…. Soon I understood that poetry could be transcendent, hymn-like, a cosmic song, and yet remain idolatrously attached to the creatures and things of our world …. Once again, as when I first began writing, it seemed it might be possible to say everything in poetry.