Spring 2005

• Diane Ackerman on Whitman’s birthplace • Robert Creeley on Whitman in old age • Mark Doty on Whitman’s sexuality • Galway Kinnell on Whitman’s powers of imagination • Additional essays by Meena Alexander, David Baker, David Haven Blake, Rafael Campo, Ed Folsom, Sam Hamill, Jane Hirshfield, William Logan, Natasha Trethewey, and Charles Wright • Poems by Robert Bly and Gregory Orr
Spring 2005

Volume 81, Number 2

Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2005 cover
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Table of contents

Essays 
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2005

“What a Filthy Presidentiad!”: Clinton’s Whitman, Bush’s Whitman, and Whitman’s America

By Ed Folsom
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2005

Democracy, Self-Reviews and the 1855 Leaves of Grass

By Heather Morton
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2005

Whitman Now

By Rafael Campo
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2005

Give Me Life Coarse and Rank

By David Kirby
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2005

A Monk’s Tale

By Sam Hamill
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2005

Whitman’s Sparkles

By Dave Smith
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2005

Whitman in Selected Anthologies: The Politics of His Afterlife

By Kenneth M. Price
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2005

Old Papa Cosmos

By Charles Wright
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2005

Panes of Glass

By Diane Ackerman
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2005

Whitman and Patriotism

By Stephen Cushman
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2005

Reflections on Whitman in Age

By Robert Creeley
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Prisoner, Fancy-Man, Rowdy, Lawyer, Physician, Priest: Whitman’s Brags

By William Logan
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2005

In Whitman’s Country

By Meena Alexander
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2005

Reading Whitman, Growing Up Rock ‘n’ Roll

By David Haven Blake
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2005

Whitman in Liège

By David Caplan
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2005

Section 26 of “Song of Myself” and Whitman’s Listening

By Jane Hirshfield
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2005

On Whitman’s “To a Locomotive in Winter”

By Michael Collier
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2005

On Whitman, Civil War Memory, and My South

By Natasha Trethewey
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2005

Elegy and Eros: Configuring Grief

By David Baker
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2005

Form, Eros, and the Unspeakable: Whitman’s Stanzas

By Mark Doty
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2005

Walt Whitman and Negative Capability

By Galway Kinnell
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2005

The Casualties of Walt Whitman

By Richard Tayson
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 2005

A Clear Midnight

By Edward Hirsch
Photography 
PHOTOGRAPHY / ISSUE: Spring 2005

“This Heart’s Geography’s Map”

Poetry 
POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2005

Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved

By Gregory Orr
POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 2005

After Reading “The Sleepers”

By Robert Bly
Editor's Desk 
EDITOR'S DESK / ISSUE: Spring 2005

Inventing Walt Whitman

By Ted Genoways

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