Contents
Looking with a Queer Smile: Walt Whitman’s Gaze and Black America - Ivy G. Wilson
Part 1
1. Erasing Race: The Lost Black Presence in Whitman’s Manuscripts - Ed Folsom
2. The “Creole” Episode: Slavery and Temperance in Franklin Evans - Amina Gautier
3. Kindred Darkness: Whitman in New Orleans - Matt Sandler
4. Walt Whitman, James Weldon Johnson, and the Violent Paradox of US Progress - Christopher Freeburg
5. Postwar America, Again - Ivy G. Wilson
6. Transforming the Kosmos: Yusef Komunyakaa Musing on Walt Whitman - Jacob Wilkenfeld
Part 2
7. For the Sake of People’s Poetry: Walt Whitman and the Rest of Us - June Jordan
8. On Whitman, Civil War Memory, and My South - Natasha Trethewey
9. Whitman: Year One - Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Afterword: At Whitman’s Grave - George B. Hutchinson
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index