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Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song
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by Jim Perlman (Editor), Ed Folsom (Editor), Dan Campion (Editor)
Jim Perlman
Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song
536
by Jim Perlman (Editor), Ed Folsom (Editor), Dan Campion (Editor)
Jim Perlman
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Overview
First published to wide critical acclaim in 1981, revised and expanded in 1998, and now re-issued as a corrected second edition (2014), this monumental anthology charts the ongoing American and international response to the legacy of the seminal poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892). Beginning with Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous 1855 letter ("I greet you at the beginning of a great career..."), this edition contains responses from Thoreau, Pound, Lawrence, Neruda, Borges, Ginsberg, Jordan, Duncan, Le Sueur, Rich, Snyder and Alexie, among many others
"I know of no more convincing proof of Walt Whitman's impact upon the poetic mind (both at home and abroad) than this collection of tributes by poets -- in prose and verse" -- Gay Wilson Allen, The Solitary Singer.
Includes 17 black & white photos.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780930100780 |
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| Publisher: | Holy Cow! Press |
| Publication date: | 10/01/1997 |
| Edition description: | 2ND |
| Pages: | 536 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.80(h) x 1.30(d) |
About the Author
Jim Perlman is founding editor and publisher of Holy Cow! Press. Begun in 1977, his press has published more than 125 books. He holds an MA from The University of Iowa where he attended the first Whitman Seminar chaired by Ed Folsom that became the inspiration for Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song. Please visit www.holycowpress.org.
Ed Folsom is the Roy J. Carver Professor of English at the University of Iowa, where he edits the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, co-directs the online Walt Whitman Archive, and edits the Whitman Series for the University of Iowa Press. He is the author or editor of numerous books and essays on Whitman and other American writers.
Dan Campion, author of Peter De Vries and Surrealism (Bucknell University Press, 1995) and Calypso (Syncline Press, 1981), lives in Iowa City, Iowa. He holds degrees from The University of Chicago and the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1989. He has contributed poetry to many magazines, including Able Muse, Light, Measure, The Midwest Quarterly, The North American Review, Poet Lore, Poetry, Rolling Stone, Shenandoah, and Think.
Table of Contents
(For third edition, 2019) Acknowledgements.........................................................................ix Table of Illustrations...................................................................................................xv Preface.........................................................................................................................xviii Preface to Third Edition (2019)...................................................................................xix “Talking Back to Walt Whitman: An Introduction,” Ed Folsom...................................21 1855 – 1905 Ralph Waldo Emerson, A Letter to Whitman (1855)...................................................79 Henry David Thoreau, A Letter to Harrison Blake (1856)...........................................80 Matthew Arnold, From a Letter to W. D. O’Connor (1866)..................................................82 Algernon Charles Swinburne, “To Walt Whitman in America” (Poem, 1871)........................83 Joaquin Miller, “To Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1877).................................................................89 Ernest Rhys, “To Walt Whitman from Some Younger English Friends” (Poem, 1889)............90 Gerard Manley Hopkins, From a Letter to Robert Bridges (1882)..........................................91 Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1897)..................................................93 Louis Sullivan, A Letter to Walt Whitman (1887)..................................................................94 Rubén Darío, “Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1890), trans. Didier Tisdel Jaén................................96 Hamlin Garland, “A Tribute of Grasses” (Poem, 1893)...........................................................97 Edmund Gosse, From “Walt Whitman” (Essay, 1893)............................................................98 Robert Buchanan, “Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1892).................................................................102 Morris Rosenfeld, “Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1890s)................................................................103 Willa Cather, “Whitman” (Essay, 1896).................................................................................104 George Cabot Lodge, “To W. W.” (Poem, 1902)....................................................................106 1905 – 1955 Ezra Pound, “A Pact” (Poem, 1913)........................................................................................111 Ezra Pound, “What I Feel About Walt Whitman” (Essay, 1909).............................................112 Fernando Pessoa, “Salutation to Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1915), trans. Edwin Honig.............114 Edgar Lee Masters, “Petit, the Poet” (Poem, 1915).................................................................122 Emanuel Carnevali, “Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1919)..............................................................123 Witter Bynner, “Whitman” (Poem, 1920)..............................................................................124 D. H. Lawrence, “Whitman” (Essay, 1921)............................................................................125 D. H. Lawrence, “Retort to Whitman” (Poem, late 1920s).....................................................134 Carl Sandburg, “[Bouquets and Brickbats]” (Essay, 1921)......................................................135 Vachel Lindsay, “Walt Whitman” (Essay, 1923)......................................................................141 Hart Crane, “Cape Hatteras” (Poem, 1929)...........................................................................145 T. S. Eliot, From “Whitman and Tennyson” (Essay, 1926).....................................................152 Sherwood Anderson, “Walt Whitman” (Essay, 1933).............................................................154 Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, “Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1929), trans. Didier Tisdel Jaén...........157 Federico García Lorca, “Ode to Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1929), trans. Betty Jean Craige........158 Zona Gale, “Walt Whitman” (Poem, late 1920s)....................................................................163 Edwin Markham, “Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1931)..................................................................165 Michael Gold, “Ode to Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1935)...........................................................168 Stephen Vincent Benét, “Ode to Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1936).............................................172 Wallace Stevens, “Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery” Part 1 (Poem, 1936)....................184 Langston Hughes, “The Ceaseless Rings of Walt Whitman” (Essay, 1946)..............................185 Langston Hughes, “Old Walt” (Poem, 1954)..........................................................................190 Kenneth Patchen, “The Orange Bears” (Poem, 1949).............................................................191 Muriel Rukeyser, “Whitman and the Problem of Good” (Essay, 1949)...................................192 Pedro Mir, “Countersong to Walt Whitman: Song of Ourselves” Parts 9, 15 (Poem, 1952) trans. Didier Tisdel Jaén............................................................201 Henry Miller, “Walt Whitman” (Essay, published 1957)........................................................205 William Carlos Williams, “The American Idiom” (Essay, published 1961).............................208 1955 - 1980 Allen Ginsberg, “A Supermarket in California” (Poem, 1955).................................................213 Jack Kerouac, “168th Chorus” (Poem, 1959).........................................................................215 Jack Spicer, “Some Notes on Whitman for Allen Joyce” (Poem, late 1950s) ...........................216 Richard Eberhart, “Centennial for Whitman” (Poem, 1955)..................................................218 Richard Eberhart, “Comments” (Essay, 1978)........................................................................222 Edwin Honig, “Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1955).......................................................................223 Pablo Neruda, “Ode to Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1956), trans. Didier Tisdel Jaén....................225 Pablo Neruda, “I Begin By Invoking Walt Whitman” (Poem, early 1970s) trans. Teresa Anderson.......................................................................................................230 Pablo Neruda, “We Live In A Whitmanesque Age” (Prose, 1972)..........................................231 Jorge Luis Borges, “Camden, 1892” (Poem, 1966), trans. Richard Howard and César Rennert........................................................................234 Jorge Luis Borges, “Note on Walt Whitman” (Essay, 1947)....................................................235 Jonathan Williams, “Fastball” (Poem, 1959)...........................................................................241 John Berryman, From “Song of Myself: Intention and Substance” (Essay, 1957)....................243 John Berryman, “Despair” (Poem, 1970)...............................................................................250 Denise Levertov, From “A Common Ground” (Poem, 1961)..................................................251 James Wright, “The Delicacy of Walt Whitman” (Essay, 1962)...............................................253 David Ignatow, “Communion” (Poem, mid 1950s)................................................................269 David Ignatow, “Son to Father” (Essay, 1979)........................................................................270 David Ignatow, “Waiting Inside” (Poem, late 1960s)..............................................................271 Louis Simpson, “Walt Whitman at Bear Mountain” (Poem, 1960).........................................272 Louis Simpson, “Pacific Ideas—A Letter to Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1963).............................274 Theodore Roethke, From “The Abyss” (Poem, 1964)..............................................................275 Edward Dahlberg, “Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1966).................................................................276 Howard Nemerov, “A Modern Poet” (Poem, 1967)................................................................279 Ronald Johnson, “Letters to Walt Whitman,” V, IX (Poems, 1966)........................................280 Charles Olson, “I, Mencius, Pupil of the Master...” (Poem, 1960)..........................................282 Robert Creeley, “Introduction” (Essay, 1972).........................................................................285 Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “Populist Manifesto” (Poem, 1975).....................................................295 Norman Rosten, “Face on the Daguerreotype” (Poem, 1965).................................................299 Calvin Forbes, “Reading Walt Whitman” (Poem, early 1970s)...............................................300 Derek Walcott, “Over Colorado” (Poem, 1976).....................................................................301 Dave Smith, “With Walt Whitman at Fredericksburg” (Poem, 1976).....................................302 Philip Dacey, “Hopkins to Whitman” (Poem, 1978)..............................................................304 Ted Berrigan, “Whitman in Black” (Poem, late 1970s)...........................................................307 William Stafford, “For You, Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1979)....................................................308 Theodore Weiss, “The Good Grey Poet” (Poem, 1976)...........................................................309 Diane Wakoski, “For Whitman” (Poem, 1973).......................................................................312 Galway Kinnell, “Whitman’s Indicative Words” (Essay, 1973, rev. 1980)................................313 1980s Allen Ginsberg, “Allen Ginsberg on Walt Whitman: Composed on the Tongue” (Discourse, 1980)...............................................................................................................................329 Allen Ginsberg, “I Love Old Whitman So” (Poem, 1984)......................................................353 Louis Simpson, “Honoring Whitman” (Essay, 1980)..............................................................354 William Heyen, “Essay Beginning and Ending with Poems for Whitman”(1980)...................358 Joseph Bruchac, “To Love the Earth: Some Thoughts on Walt Whitman” (Essay, 1980).........366 Alvaro Cardona-Hine, “I Teach Straying from Me—Yet Who Can Stray from Me?” (Essay, 1980)............................................................................................................................... 371 Larry Levis, “Whitman” (Poem, 1981)...................................................................................376 Calvin Hernton, “Crossing Brooklyn Bridge…” (Poem, 1980)..............................................378 Patricia Goedicke, “For Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1980)...........................................................379 Patricia Hampl, “The Mayflower Moment: Reading Whitman During the Vietnam War” (Essay, 1980).....................................................................................................................381 Judith Moffett, “Reaching Around” (Poem, 1980).................................................................395 Thomas McGrath, “Revolutionary Frescoes—The Ascension” (Poem, 1978, rev. 1980)..........400 Robert Bly, “My Doubts About Whitman” (Essay, 1980, rev. 1998).......................................402 June Jordan, “For the Sake of a People’s Poetry: Walt Whitman and the Rest of Us” (Essay, 1980)...............................................................................................................................411 Meridel LeSueur, “Jelly Roll” (Essay, 1980)............................................................................421 Sharon Olds, “Nurse Whitman” (Poem, 1980).......................................................................425 Robert Duncan, “The Adventure of Whitman’s Line” (Essay, 1985).......................................426 Gillian Conoley, “Walt Whitman in the Car Lot, Repo or Used” (Poem, 1989) ....................442 1990s Adrienne Rich, “Beginners” (Essay, 1993)..............................................................................447 Gary Snyder, “Walt Whitman’s New World, Old World” (Essay, 1993)..................................452 Marge Piercy, “How I Came to Walt Whitman and Found Myself” (Essay, 1992)..................455 Alicia Ostriker, “Loving Walt Whitman and the Problem of America” (Essay, 1992)..............457 Garrett Hongo, “On Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass” (Essay, 1992).......................................466 Yusef Komunyakaa, “Kosmos” (Poem, 1992).........................................................................470 Chou Ping, “Walt Whitman: Whispers of Heavenly Death Murmur’d I Hear!” (Poem, 1993)....................................................................................................................473 Sherman Alexie, “Defending Walt Whitman” (Poem, 1996)..........................................474 Rudulfo Anaya, “Walt Whitman Strides the Llano of New Mexico” (Poem, 1996)........476 2000s Monique S. Farrell, "Sushi in Brooklyn: A Dedication to Walt Whitman" (Poem, 2002).......480 Daphne Gottlieb, "Whitman's Sampler: Killing the Father of Free Verse" (Poem, 2004).....482 James Kimbrell, "Up Late: Reading Whitman" (Poem, 2005).................................................484 Dean Young, "Look at Quintillions Ripen'd & Look at Quintillions Green" (Poem, 2006).....487 Julia Alverez, "I, Too, Sing America' (Poem, 2006)...................................................................489 Meena Alexander, "Torn Grass" (Poem, 2006)........................................................................491 Rosanna Warren, "A Kosmos" (Poem, 2007)...........................................................................493 C.K. Williams, "What He Teaches Us" (Essay, 2010)...............................................................494 Maria Kelson, "Let America Be las americas" (Poem, 2014)..................................................499 Mark Doty, "What Is the Grass?" (Poem, 2015).......................................................................501 Martin Espada, "How We Could Have Lived or Died This Way" (Poem, 2015)......................502 The Poets Respond: A Bibliographic Chronology..................................................................505 Notes on Contributors............................................................................................................525From the B&N Reads Blog
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