Visiting Walt: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Walt Whitman
edited by Sheila Coghill and Thom Tammaro
foreword by Ed Folsom
foreword by Ed Folsom
University of Iowa Press, 2003
Cloth: 978-0-87745-853-1 | Paper: 978-0-87745-854-8
Library of Congress Classification PS595.W42V575 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.0080351
Cloth: 978-0-87745-853-1 | Paper: 978-0-87745-854-8
Library of Congress Classification PS595.W42V575 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.0080351
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword by Ed Folsom xi
Expecting the Main Things xiii
Sherman Alexie Defending Walt Whitman 1
Eugenio de Andrade Walt Whitman and the Birds 3
Aliki Barnstone Wild With It 4
Tony Barnstone Hair of the Field 6
Willis Barnstone Jiang Yuying, Famous Professor at Beijing
University, Who Daringly Rendered into Chinese the First Complete Walt Whitman 9
Marvin Bell Whitman's Grass 11
Joe Benevento May 31, 1989 13
Ted Berrigan Whitman in Black 15
John Berryman Despair 16
Robert Bly This Night: For Walt Whitman 17
Jorge Luis Borges Camden, 1892 18
Michael Dennis Browne Your Sister 19
Joseph Bruchac Canticle 20
Edward Byrne Early Evening 21
Thomas Centolella Small Acts 23
Nicholas Christopher Walt Whitman at the Reburial of Poe 25
David Citino Walt Whitman in New Orleans, 1848 27
Jonathan Cohen Walt Whitman in Ohio 28
Gillian Conoley Walt Whitman in the Car Lot, Repo or Used 29
David Cope Labor Day 31
Bruce Cutler February 12, 1865 32
Philip Dacey Whitman: The Wall 34
Toi Derricotte Whitman, Come Again to the Cities 35
W. S. Di Piero Walt, the Wounded 36
Mark Doty Letter to Walt Whitman 39
Richard Eberhart Centennial for Whitman 49
Lynn Emanuel Walt, I Salute You! 53
Martin Espada Another Nameless Prostitute Says the Man Is Innocent 55
Dave Etter Green-Eyed Boy after Reading Whitman and Sandburg 57
Richard Fein To Walt Whitman 58
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poem for Old Walt 62
Calvin Forbes Reading Walt Whitman 63
Randall Freisinger Walt Whitman at Timber Creek 64
Daisy Fried A Story Having to Do with Walt Whitman 66
Thomas Gannon Meeting the Master 68
Suzanne Gardinier Memorials 69
Allen Ginsberg I Love Old Whitman So 70
Jesse Glass Lecturing on Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson in China 71
Patricia Goediclce For Walt Whitman 73
Albert Goldbarth The Poem of the Praises 75
Beckian Fritz Goldberg Whitman's Confession: In the Cleft of Eternity 79
David Graham The Varied Carol 81
Matthew Graham Matthew Brady Speaks ofWhitman 83
Jim Harrison Ghazal XXXIX 84
William Heyen Bread 85
Edward Hirsch Whitman Leaves the Boardwalk 87
Daniel Hoffman Crossing Walt Whitman Bridge 88
Edwin Honig [Walt Whitman] 91
Paul Hoover Whitman in a Corner 92
Langston Hughes Old Walt 94
T. R. Hummer Walt Whitman in Hell 95
David Ignatow Walt Whitman in the Civil War Hospitals inI
Gray Jacobik Under the Sign of Walt Whitman 112
Juan Ram6n Jim6nez Walt Whitman 113
Erica Jong Testament (Or, Homage to Walt Whitman) 114
John Judson Whitman Again 119
Yusef Komunyakaa Kosmos 120
Steve Kowit A Whitman Portrait 123
Norbert Krapf A Civil War Veteran from Indiana Recalls
Visiting with Walt Whitman in a Washington Hospital 125
Mark Kraushaar Dear Mr. Whitman, 128
Philip Levine I Sing the Body Electric I30
Larry Levis Whitman 132
Federico Garcia Lorca Ode to Walt Whitman 134
Thomas Lux Walt Whitman's Brain Dropped on Laboratory Floor 139
David Mason A Whit for Whitman 140
Lynne McMahon Hopkins and Whitman 141
Gary Miranda Second-Born Son: Lines for Walt Whitman Composed on Nantucket Island 143
Roger Mitchell To Walt Whitman on America's Birthday 146
Judith Moffett Reaching Around 148
Stanley Moss Postcard to Walt Whitman from Siena 154
Howard Nelson Reading "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" on a Summer Morning 155
Howard Nemerov A Modern Poet I56
Pablo Neruda Ode to Walt Whitman 157
Sharon Olds Nurse Whitman 162
Anthony Piccione With Whitman at the Friendship Hotel 163
Stanley Plumly Readingwith the Poets 164
Ezra Pound A Pact 166
Edwin Arlington Robinson Walt Whitman 167
Larry Rottmann A Porter on the Trail 168
Ira Sadoff Against Whitman 170
Terrence Savoie Reading Whitman's Democratic Vistas 171
James Schevill Whitman Stock-Taking, Cataloguing 173
Shane Seely Walt Whitman at the Irish Festival, Syracuse, New York: Four Snapshots 175
Robert B. Shaw Last Days in Camden 176
Louis Simpson Walt Whitman at Bear Mountain 183
Floyd Skloot Whitman Pinch Hits, 1861 185
Dave Smith With Walt Whitman at Fredericksburg 187
George Jay Smith When Helen Keller Spoke 189
William Stafford For You, Walt Whitman 189
Gerald Stern from "Hot Dog" 192
Tim Suermondt Briefly Eavesdropping on Walt Whitman, Virginia, 1863 196
Phil Tabakow Walt Whitman at Pfaff's: A Fantasy 197
Eric Torgersen An Apple from Walt Whitman 198
David Wagoner Walt Whitman Bathing 199
Diane Wakoski For Whitman 200
Anne Waldman On Walt Whitman's Birthday 201
Theodore Weiss The Good Grey Poet 202
Gall White Walt Whitman Encounters the Cosmos with the Cats of New York 205
Wang Yin Walt Whitman 206
Jake Adam York Walt Whitman in Alabama 207
Notes on Contributors 211
Permissions 225
Index to Titles 233
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