Walt Whitman Bathing: Poems
When David Wagoner's last
collection, Through the Forest: New and Selected Poems, was published,
Harold Bloom noted that Wagoner's "study of American nostalgias is
as eloquent and moving as that of James Wright, and like Wright's poetry
carries on some of the deepest currents in American verse." The same
could be said of Walt Whitman Bathing, in which Wagoner's poems
range from the lyric to the satiric,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0252065700
ISBN13:9780252065705
Release Date:August 1996
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Length:104 Pages
Weight:0.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 6.0" x 8.1"
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Simple and Stunning
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
The power of the word. The poem 'Walt Whitman Bathing' deserves a special Pulitzer Prize alone. Written a simple clauses, the poem is loaded with words that made me stop, think, and read on, again and again. Wagoner's arc in this collection is from childhood to old age. The words stayed the same. The context changed. And this is who we are. Give this book to someone as a gift. Gift. What a beautiful word. Wagoner. Another.
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