Walt Whitman. <i>Leaves of Grass / Grashalme: Zweisprachige Fassung der Erstausgabe von 1855 </i>

Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass / Grashalme: Zweisprachige Fassung der Erstausgabe von 1855. Translated by Walter Grünzweig and a team of translators at TU Dortmund University. Aachen: Rimbaud, 2022. 226 pp

Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 41, no. 3/4

Back Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 41, no. 3/

Front Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 41, no. 1/2

Front Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 41, no. 1/2

Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Winter/Spring 2024

Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Winter/Spring 202

"Whoever You Are, We Too Lie in Drifts at Your Feet": Walt Whitman's Mystic Self in Jorie Graham's Water Poetry

This essay traces Whitman’s transcendental legacy as a mystic interlocutor between the divine and the eternal Universal Being and its reception in contemporary ecopoetic water poetry. This close study of “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” and “As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life" charts Whitman’s move away from viewing nature as a resource for human domination and exploitation towards a sense of our interconnectedness within nature as part of this Universal Being. Comparing Whitman’s transcendentalist American poetry with Graham’s contemporary ecopoetry, this essay examines how the different historical contexts of frontier expansion (Whitman) and erasure caused by the late-stage climate disaster (Graham) exert their different influences on the mystic, transcendental speakers of these poems. Consulting Graham’s “The Wake Off the Ferry” and “Ebbtide” in answer to Whitman’s poems, it explores how the climate crisis negates the possibility of eternity or any assurance of our value or place within the divine or eternal, and instead offers only the certainty of the moment, before that too begins to crumble

Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Summer/Fall 2023

Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Summer/Fall 202

“Building the House that Serves Him Longer”: A History of Walt Whitman's Tomb

In letters and conversations with friends and acquaintances, Whitman's ideas about his "burial house" gradually took shape over the four years prior to his death in March 1892. The completion of Whitman's tomb represented the culmination of a complicated series of decisions. While the location of Whitman's tomb, its design, and its cost are topics that have received various critical and biographical interpretations, this essay includes recently uncovered materials that provide a clearer understanding of the process that unfolded in the years prior to Whitman's death regarding his tomb.&nbsp

Front Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 41, no. 3/4

Front Matter, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 41, no. 3/

Fellowship Dinners and The Armory Show

This essay contextualizes and analyzes two previously unrecorded letters from the artist Robert Henri to Horace Traubel. Dating to 1909 and 1913, they broaden what is known about Henri’s relationship with both Whitman and Traubel’s Whitman Fellowship, as well as Traubel’s response to modern art. Building on the work of Ruth Bohan, this essay forwards new insights into Henri’s relationship with Traubel and expands our understanding of Whitman’s influence on Henri’s teaching. Henri was devoted to Whitman. Knowing this, Horace Traubel hoped to bring Henri further into the fellowship Dinners, but this essay finds Henri repeatedly declined to attend and speak and used his classroom instead as the outlet for his Whitman lectures

Walt Whitman. <i>Specimen Days.</i> ed. Max Cavitch

Walt Whitman. Specimen Days. Ed. Max Cavitch. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Oxford WorldClassics. xlx + 286 pp