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Summary: Measuring Walt Whitman's influence.
Review: Whitman may be my favorite poet. That bias aside, for those who appreciate Whitman, or for those who simply enjoy Whitman-style poetry, this anthology should not be missed. In roughly 150 letters, essays, and poems collected since the 1855 publication of "Leaves of Grass" through the 1990s, this book measures the influence Whitman has had upon poets including Pound, Eliot, Garcia Lorca, Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Neruda, Borges, Levertov, Ferlinghetti, Bly, Snyder, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Anayo.
Rating:
Summary: Measuring Walt Whitman's influence.
Review: Whitman may be my favorite poet. That bias aside, for those who appreciate Whitman, or for those who simply enjoy Whitman-style poetry, this anthology should not be missed. In roughly 150 letters, essays, and poems collected since the 1855 publication of "Leaves of Grass" through the 1990s, this book measures the influence Whitman has had upon poets including Pound, Eliot, Garcia Lorca, Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Neruda, Borges, Levertov, Ferlinghetti, Bly, Snyder, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Anayo.
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