附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-255) and index.
Reading gay America : Walt Whitman, Henry James, and the politics of reception / Eric Savoy -- Langston Hughes and the "other" Whitman / George B. Hutchinson -- Whitman's indifference to Indians / Maurice Kenny -- Tropes of selfhood : Whitman's "expressive individualism" / M. Jimmie Killingsworth -- Rereading Whitman under pressure of AIDS : his sex radicalism and ours / Michael Moon -- A serpent in the grass : reading Walt Whitman and Frank O'Hara / David Eberly -- Whispering Whitman to the ears of others : Ronald Johnson's recipe for Leaves of grass / Ed Folsom -- Free verse in Whitman and Ginsberg : the body and the simulacrum / Amitai Avi-ram -- Fetishizing America : David Hockney and Thom Gunn / Robert K. Martin -- "Still on my lips" : Walt Whitman in Britain / Gregory Woods -- Walt Whitman in Ontario / Michael Lynch.
Atlantic poets : "discovery" as metaphor and ideology / Maria Irena Ramalho de Sousa Santos -- Pessoa and Whitman : brothers in the universe / Susan Margaret Brown -- Whitman's "Live oak with moss" / Alan Helms -- Forays against the republic / Thom Gunn -- A postscript on Whitman / Ned Rorem -- Loving Walt Whitman and the problem of America / Alicia Ostriker -- Letters to Walt Whitman / Ronald Johnson.
摘要:The most protean and elusive of all American poets, Walt Whitman is everywhere and nowhere at once. An unavoidable presence, he still arouses anger, envy, love, and debate one hundred years after his death. To honor this anniversary, Robert Martin has invited the most invigorating and innovative of Whitman's new readers and critics to respond not to Whitman's death but to his continuing life as it has marked their own lives and writings. The eighteen essays gathered in this volume testify to the powerful multiple responses that Whitman continues to evoke.
