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ESSAYS / Spring 2005

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

By Ed Folsom
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ESSAYS / Spring 2005

The Casualties of Walt Whitman

By Richard Tayson
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ESSAYS / Spring 2005

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

By Mark Doty
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ESSAYS / Spring 2005

On Whitman, Civil War Memory, and My South

By Natasha Trethewey
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ESSAYS / Spring 2005

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

By Jane Hirshfield
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ESSAYS / Spring 2005

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

By William Logan
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ESSAYS / Spring 2005

Panes of Glass

By Diane Ackerman
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POETRY / Spring 2005

Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved

By Gregory Orr
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EDITOR'S DESK / Spring 2005

Inventing Walt Whitman

By Ted Genoways
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ESSAYS / Spring 2007

“That Grotesque and Laughable Word”: Rethinking Patriotism in Time of War

By David Caplan
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