Spring 2005
Volume 81, Number 2
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Editor's Desk
- Ted Genoways — Inventing Walt Whitman
Essay
- Diane Ackerman — Panes of Glass
- Meena Alexander — In Whitman’s Country
- David Baker — Elegy and Eros: Configuring Grief
- David Haven Blake — Reading Whitman, Growing Up Rock 'n' Roll
- Rafael Campo — Whitman Now
- David Caplan — Whitman in Liège
- Michael Collier — On Whitman’s "To a Locomotive in Winter"
- Robert Creeley — Reflections on Whitman in Age
- Stephen Cushman — Whitman and Patriotism
- Mark Doty — Form, Eros, and the Unspeakable: Whitman’s Stanzas
- Ed Folsom — "What a Filthy Presidentiad!": Clinton’s Whitman, Bush’s Whitman, and Whitman’s America
- Sam Hamill — A Monk’s Tale
- Edward Hirsch — A Clear Midnight
- Jane Hirshfield — Section 26 of "Song of Myself" and Whitman’s Listening
- Galway Kinnell — Walt Whitman and Negative Capability
- David Kirby — Give Me Life Coarse and Rank
- William Logan — Prisoner, Fancy-Man, Rowdy, Lawyer, Physician, Priest: Whitman’s Brags
- Heather Morton — Democracy, Self-Reviews and the 1855 Leaves of Grass
- Kenneth M. Price — Whitman in Selected Anthologies: The Politics of His Afterlife
- Dave Smith — Whitman’s Sparkles
- Richard Tayson — The Casualties of Walt Whitman
- Natasha Trethewey — On Whitman, Civil War Memory, and My South
- Charles Wright — Old Papa Cosmos
VQR Gallery
- Ed Folsom and Ted Genoways — “This Heart’s Geography’s Map”: The Photographs of Walt Whitman
Poetry
- Robert Bly — After Reading “The Sleepers”
- Gregory Orr — Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved



