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Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Spring 1989 Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Spring 1989

Ed Folsom University of Iowa, ed-folsom@uiowa.edu

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WHITMAN: A CURRENT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Aaron, Daniel. "Whitman and the Founding Fathers." The Mickle Street Review no~ 10 (1988),5-12. [On Whitman's "'Founding Father' worship" and his poetic use of American history.] .

Antler. "Walt Whitman, Camerado." The Mickle Street Review no. 10 ( 1988), 81-84. [Appreciation of Whitman's "love embracing all."]

Asselineau, Roger. Review of M. Wynn Thomas, The Lunar Light of Whitman's Poetry. Etudes Anglaises 41 Guly-September 1988), 368-369.

Balakian, Peter. ''Whitman as Jeremiah." The Mickle Street Review no. 10 (1988), 71-80. [Analysis of Democratic Vistas as a bleak American jeremiad.]

Bly, Robert. "A Whitman Sampler." [Review of Whitman, An American Primer (Holy Cow! Press reprint).] Hungry Mind Review no. 4 (Spring 1987), 3.

Braudy, Leo. The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History. New York: Oxford Uni­versity Press, 1986. ["Dickinson and Whitman: The Audience of Solitude," 462-475.]

Carr, Brian. "Walt Whitman, Autumn, 1987." The Mickle Street Review no. 10 (1988), 38. [Poem.]

Colapietro, Vincent. Review of Whitman, An American Primer [Holy Cow! Press re­print]. Great River Review 7 (1987), 152-157.

Cory;Jim. "At Whitman's Tomb." The Mickle Street Review no. 10 (1988),86-87. [Poem.]

Crawford, Peter. "John Burroughs." In John W. Rathburn and Monica M. Grecu, eds., American Literary Critics and Scholars, 1850-1880 (Detroit: Gale Research, 1988), 9-15. [Burroughs as a literary critic, with commentary on Burroughs's writings about Whitman.]

Cumberland, Sharon. "On Brooklyn Heights Promenade: Speaking to Whitman's . Voice in 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.'" The Mickle Street Review no. 10 (1988),

32-35. [Poem.]

Dacey, Philip. "Thomas Eakins: The Secret Whitman Sitting." Hudson Review 41 (Autumn 1988), 489-492. [Poem imagining Whitman posing in the nude for Eakins.]

Davis, Robert Leigh. "W ound-Dressers and House Calls: Medical Representations in Whitman and Williams." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 6 (Winter 1989), 133-139.

Diehl, Paul. "'A Noiseless Patient Spider': Whitman's Beauty- Blood and Brain." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 6 (Winter 1989), 117-132.

Ehrenpreis, Irvin. Poetries of America: Essays on the Relation of Character to Style, ed. Daniel Albright. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1989. [Chap­ter 1, "Whitman," 1-16.]

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Erkkila, Betsy. Review of Whitman, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscn'pts, ed. Edward F. Grier. The Mickle Street Review no. 10 (1988), 102-115.

Ferg, Josh. "The Ebbs of Youth." The Mickle Street Review no. 10 (1988), 90. [Poem.]

Fisher, Philip. "Democratic Social Space: Whitman, Melville, and the Promise of American Transparency." Representations no. 24 (Autumn 1988),60-101. [Inves­tigation of how Americans have developed a "common identity" based on eco­nomic rather than historical, ideological, religious, or linguistic factors; Whitman develops an "aesthetics of identity" where "each person becomes transparent to every other within society."]

Folsom, Ed. "Four Additional Whitman Photographs," Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 6 (Winter 1989), 146.

---. "Whitman and the Visual Democracy of Photography." The Mickle Street Review no. 10 (1988),51-65. [The democratic lessons photography taught Whit­man, and the ways photography helped him structure his art.]

French, R. W. "Walt to Ezra." The Mickle Street Review no. 10 (1988), 70. [Poem.]

Gates, Rosemary L. "Forging an American Poetry from Speech Rhythms: Williams After Whitman." Poetics Today 8 (1987), 503-527. [Technical discussion of Whitman's use of the phonological phrase as the basic unit of his prosody, with analysis of Williams's adaptation of Whitman's techniques.]

Grabo, Norman S. Review of George Hutchinson, The Ecstatic Whitman. Amen'can Literature 60 (December 1988), 668-670.

Greenspan, Ezra. "The Earliest French Review of Whitman." Walt Whitman Quar­terly Review 6 (Winter 1989), 109-116.

Griinzweig, Walter. "'Mit dem Phallus philosophieren': Hermann Bahr's Vision of Walt Whitman's 'Erotokratie.'" Modern Austrian Literature 21 (1988), 1-12. [On Bahr's discovery of Whitman's "democracy ofthe heart" as a basis for his vision of a new global intercultural age.]

Hutchinson, Stuart. Review of M. Wynn Thomas, The Lunar Light of Whitman~ Poetry. Notes and Queries 35 (Septemoer 1988),419-420.

Katz, Eliot. "As I Stand Before Your Grave, Camerado-lines written at Whitman's Tomb, July 5th, 198Q." The Mickle Street Review no. 10 (1988),36-38. [Poem.]

Killingsworth, M. Jimmie. Whitman's Poetry of the Body: Sexuality, Politics, and the Text. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. [To be reviewed.]

Kowit, Steve. "A Whitman Portrait." The Mickle Street Review no. 10 (1988), 49-50. [Poem.]

Krieg, Joann P. "Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Whitman Connection." In Sheryl L. Meyerling, ed., Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Woman and Her Work (Ann Arbor: UMI Research, 1989), 145-149. [Reprinted from WWQR 1 (March 1984);]

Kummings, Donald D. Review of Whitman, An American Primer [Holy Cow! Press reprint]. The Mickle Street Review no. 10 (1988), 99-102.

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Lewis, Robert W. Review of Whitman, An American Primer [Holy Cow! Press re­print]. North Dakota Quarterly 55 (Summer 1987), 239-240.

Loving, Jerome. "Whitman, Washington, and the War: 'Lilacs' Revisited." In David McAleavey, ed., Washington and Washington Writing (GW Washington Studies, no. 12 [July 1986], Center for Washington Area Studies, The George Washington University), 30-36. [Reading of "Lilacs" in context of Whitman's life in Washing­ton.]

Maini, Darshan Singh. The Spirit o/American Literature. New York: Envoy Press, 1988. [Contains "Walt Whitman's Passage to Punjab."]

Marr, David. Amen"can Worlds Since Emerson. Amherst: University of Massachu­setts Press, 1988. [Chapter 2, "'Come Forth, Sweet Democratic Despots of the West!': Whitman's Democratic Vistas," 73-91.]

Murray, Dan. "Another Lesson." The Mickle Street Review no. 10 (1988), 14. [Poem.]

Nelson, Howard. Review of George B. Hutchinson, The Ecstatic Whitman. The Mickle Street Review no. 10 (1988), 93-96.

Pacernick, Gary. "To Walt Whitman." The Mickle Street Review no. 10 (1988),85. [Poem.]

Pollak, Vivian R. "Whitman and Dickinson." In David J. Nordloh, ed., American Literary Scholarship: An Annuall1986 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1988), 69-84. [Bibliographic essay reviewing Whitman scholarship for 1986.]

Price, Kenneth M. Review of Charley Shively, ed., Calamus Lovers. The Mickle Street Review no. 10 (1988), 96-99.

Reynolds, David S. "Whitman the Radical Democrat." The Mickle Street Review no. 10 (1988); 39-48. [Whitman's identity with the 1840s popular radical democrat writers, who were at once subversive and patriotic.]

Shively, Charley, ed. Drum Beats: Walt Whitman'S Civil War Boy Lovers. San Fran­cisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1989. [Collects and analyzes letters to Whitman from Civil War soldiers. Reviewed in this issue.]

Shucard, Alan. American Poetry: The Pun'tans Through Walt Whitman. Boston: Twayne, 1988. [Chapter 7, "Walt Whitman," 150-179.]

Sill, Geoffrey, ed. The Mickle Street Review no. 10 (1988). [Special issue on "Walt Whitman and the Foundations of America." Contains six essays and four reviews, listed individually in this bibliography, a preface by Sill ("Whitman and the Foundations of America," 3-4), and sixteen poems (those dealing with Whitman are listed separately in this bibliography).]

Trachtenberg, Alan. "Whitman's Visionary Politics." The Mickle Street Review no. 10 (1988), 15-31. [On the centrality of Whitman's "politics of democracy" to his poetry.]

Tritica, John. "The First and Last Reading." The Mickle Street Review no. 10 (1988), . 66-69. [Poem.]

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Turco, Lewis Putnam. Visions and Revisions of American Poetry. Fayetteville: Uni­versity of Arkansas Press, 1986. ["The Good Gray Poet," 36-42; "Masculine and Feminine in American Poetry," 43-56.]

Vendler, Helen. The Music of What Happens: Poems, Poets, Cn·tics. Cambridge: Har­vard University Press, 1988. [Chapter 9, "Reading Walt Whitman," 132-146.]

Wakoski, Diane. "The Birth of the San Francisco Renaissance: Something Now Called the Whitman Tradition." Literary Review 32 (Autumn 1988), 36-41. [Tracks the Whitman tradition of "individual voice" in opposition to English Ro­manticism and to New Critical preferences.]

Weisbuch, Robert. Atlantic Double-Cross: American Literature and Bn·tish Influence in the Age of Emerson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. [Chapter 4, "Whitman's Personalism, Arnold's Culture," 83-106; Chapter 8, "History, Time, and Spirit: Whitman Against Wordsworth, Carlyle and Emerson Against Themselves," 177-192; Chapter 10, "The Actualist Hero: Whitman and Words­worth, Emerson and Carlyle Once More," 221-245.]

White, William. Review of Dennis Berthold and Kenneth Price, eds. Dear Brother Walt. Resources for American Literary Study 15 (Autumn 1985), 225-226.

Winans, A. D. "Poem for Whitman." The Mickle Street Review no. 10 (1988), 70. [Poem.]

Witemeyer, Hugh. "Clothing the American Adam: Pound's Tailoring of Walt Whit­man." In George Bornstein, ed., Ezra Pound Among the Poets (Chicago: Univer­sity of Chicago Press, 1985),81-105.

Yamauchi, Hisako. "Walt Whitman." In John W. Rathburn and Monica M. Grecu, eds., American Literary Critics and Scholars, 1850-1880 (Detroit: Gale Research, 1988), 274-287. [Whitman as a literary critic.]

Unsigned. Review of Agnieszka Salska, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Dickin­son Studies, no. 66 (1988), 3-4.

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