Whitman is THE American poet, in my humble opinion. I can always find something among his Leaves of Grass to comfort, uplift, sustain, provoke. Love, love, love him.
Leaves of Grass is mostly pretty annoying. It's so hopelessly vague that you can derive any meaning you'd like from it. I'm all for ambiguity, but there's not a shred of certainty in this entire work.But I guess it's also really famous and Walt Whitman fanboys will murder me in my sleep if I give th...
9-9-11 Whitman's enthusiasm is exhausting--simply antithetical to my personality.And...having just written that I don't get bent out of shape at Kipling's racism, sexism, fascism...I cannot refrain from taking issue with Whitman's glorification of the genocide of Native Americans. The red aborigi...
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