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Walt Whitman gathering

Canadian Anthology

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The next issue is by INVITATION ONLY - due online by June 15, 2010.

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  The following section is for those interested in Walt Whitman.
 


                     Wallace Stevens:

                     In the far South the sun of autumn is passing
                     like Walt Whitman walking along a ruddy shore.
                     He is singing and chanting the things that are part of him,
                     The worlds that were and will be, death and day.
                     Nothing is final, he chants.  No man shall see the end.
                     His beard is of fire and his staff is a leaping flame. 

                     Harold Bloom:

                     "Whitman is the greatest artist his nation has brought forth....
                     One always wants to start fresh with Whitman and read him as
                     as though he has never been read before...Whitman, like Shakespeare
                     ...tempts me to confront greatness directly, as though I could
                     be alone with his work...try to read as though you were Adam
                     early in the morning."

                     D. H. Lawrence: 
                                                      
                     "Whitman, the great poet, has meant so much to me. Whitman, 
                     the one man breaking a way ahead."

                     William Carlos Williams once said during a lecture 
                     at Columbia:

                     "I think our one major lead as Americans is to educe 
                     and exploit the significance of Walt Whitman's formal
                     excursions--And nothing else!"

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mule pastel by KAREN BRUENIG