From Blue Mills to Columbia : Cedar Falls and the Civil War / Robert K. Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Robert K., 1941- author.

Series:

Iowa Whitman Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cedar Falls (Iowa)--History.

Cedar Falls (Iowa).

Iowa--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Iowa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, [1992]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. Reading the Nation; Reading Gay America: Walt Whitman,Henry James, and the Politics of Reception; Langston Hughes and the ""Other"" Whitman; Whitman's Indifference to Indians; Tropes of Selfhood: Whitman's""Expressive Individualism""; Rereading Whitman under Pressure of AIDS: His Sex Radicalism and Ours; II. Some Readers; A Serpent in the Grass: Reading Walt Whitmanand Frank O'Hara; Whispering Whitman to the Ears of Others: Ronald Johnson's Recipe for Leaves of Grass; Free Verse in Whitman and Ginsberg: The Bodyand the Simulacrum

Fetishizing America: David Hockney and Thom GunnIII. Beyond the Borders; ""Still on My Lips"": Walt Whitman in Britain; Walt Whitman in Ontario; Atlantic Poets: ""Discovery"" as Metaphor andIdeology; Pessoa and Whitman: Brothers in the Universe; IV. The Poets Respond; Whitman's ""Live Oak with Moss""; Forays against the Republic; A Postscript on Whitman; Loving Walt Whitman and the Problem ofAmerica; Letters to Walt Whitman; Notes on Contributors; Selected Bibliography; Index to Whitman Poems Cited

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781587291401

1587291401

OCLC:

44963692