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I WANTED TO READ WHITMAN
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I wanted to read Whitman
I wanted to feel intense fire
and that sinewy fiber of wordplay
sliding across the boulevard
sensuously slithering like a snake
massaging human wilderness
What an excellent critique of
What an excellent critique of Whitman!
Starward
critique or twisted fantasy?
critique or twisted fantasy? or both?
I don't know for sure. But I
I don't know for sure. But I must thank you for bringing Whitman to the front of my mind again (I deliberately avoided his poetry in college). His statement about contradicting himself, from Song Of Myself, 51, was useful to me as an epigraph in one of my poems today. I don't think I would have thought of that had I not read your poem first.
Starward
thank you. It is always good
thank you. It is always good to revisit poets and authors. New twists and wrinkles emerge.
For sure. I have been
For sure. I have been reading Wallace Stevens, and to a lesser extent T S Eliot since the late seventies, and I still find remarkable things in their poems, even though I have read them all before.
Starward
yep
yep