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282 pages, 2 photos, 1992
$41.00 cloth, 0-87745-366-7, 978-0-87745-366-6
"The Whitman centennial is well marked by The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman, a collection of nineteen essays, most about Whitman's eroticism, some old but most new, very well written, with a minimum of chic jargon."—American Literature
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.
CONTRIBUTORS
AMITAI AVI-RAM
SUSAN MARGARET BROWN
DAVID EBERLY
ED FOLSOM
THOM GUNN
ALAN HELMS
GEORGE B. HUTCHINSON
RONALD JOHNSON
MAURICE KENNY
M. JIMMIE KILLINGSWORTH
MICHAEL LYNCH
ROBERT K. MARTIN
MICHAEL MOON
ALICIA OSTRIKER
NED ROREM
MARIA IRENA RAMALHO DE SOUSA SANTOS
ERIC SAVOY
GREGORY WOODS
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