Salute, Walt Whitman

Rating:
Summary: excellent photo, so so poem
Review: I love this book very much but I did not buy it. I go to libraries to read this book many times. There's only one model in this book. The first several pages made me astonished for the beauty of the model. His body looks like ancient greek statue so much that I think Duane Michals emphasize this in purpose. There are also other fabulous photos inside this book that make me feel so moved. The only disadvantage of the book (for me only, maybe you don't think so) is that I don't like Walt Whitman's poems, not at all. His peoms in my opinion are too shallow and no ryme, like the talk of a farmer who reads little and who does not have talent in poems at all. (Maybe his proses are good.) I cannot tolerate seeing bad poems beside at the time of looking at wonderful photos.(that's why I did not buy the book but just read it in library).

If you like Walt Whitman's poem , consider the masterpiece of photos of Michals(the photos inside this book are a masterpiece absolutely), go and buy one for yourself, or at least borrow it from a library.