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Overview
From the introduction by Galway Kinnell:
The poems of Walt Whitman meant little to me when I read them in high school and college. Luckily, when I was teaching at the University of Grenoble in my late twenties, I was required to give a course on Whitman. My experience of Leaves of Grass then was intense. . . . Soon I understood that poetry could be transcendent, hymn-like, a cosmic song, and yet remain idolatrously attached to the creatures and things of our world. . . . Once again, as when I first began writing, it seemed it might be possible to say everything in poetry.
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- ISBN-13: 9780060887926
- ISBN-10: 0060887923
- Publisher: Ecco Press
- Publish Date: March 2006
- Dimensions: 7 x 4.4 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.3 pounds
- Page Count: 208
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