Dialogues with Walt Whitman for the New American Millennium:: A New Song of These United States

by Michael Sweda

Overview

Walt Whitman, Americas eternal and greatest poet, returns on the eve of September 11, 2001, to pay a visit to his chosen Camerado, Michael Sweda, in order to inspire the completion of a great American work to complement his Leaves of Grass and to honor America, its people, and the military service members. Michael Sweda delivers with haunting and stunning poetry that recalls that of Whitman and extends Whitmans great poetic vision for a new time and millenniumour time, this time. For anyone who loves America or an American service member, Dialogues with Walt Whitman for the New American Millennium is a must read. Prepare to be swept away and awed with the poetry of Michael Sweda, who honors the tradition of Walt Whitman and who brings Whitman to a new, higher level, just as Whitman envisioned during his lifetime.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781504957250
Publisher:	AuthorHouse
Publication date:	04/08/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	88
File size:	201 KB

About the Author

Michael Sweda is a novelist, poet, forensic psychologist, clinical psychologist, and educator. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and the University of Iowa. As a forensic psychologist, he has the distinction of having founded, directed, and developed for the US Army at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (subsequently the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center) the first and still only postdoctoral training program in forensic psychology that is accredited by the American Psychological Association. Early in his career he was a psychology intern and forensic psychology resident at St. Elizabeths Hospital, the first federal mental health hospital, which was originally chartered to serve the citizens of the District of Columbia, soldiers of the US Army, and sailors of the US Navy. Dr. Sweda also has the distinction of working on a series of major cases involving vulnerable populations, out of which the FBI Innocent Images program was founded, after which the US National Sex Offender Public Website was named, and the case which initiated National Missing Children’s Day. He has been a resident of Camp Springs, MD, for twenty-five years and is in the process of moving to St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, with his wife of thirty years, Mercedes. He is currently working on his second novel, Unlawful Command Influence.