Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: Live Oak, with Moss and Calamus (Iowa Whitman) - Softcover

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9781587299582: Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: Live Oak, with Moss and Calamus (Iowa Whitman)

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Commemorating both the first publication of the Calamus poems and the little-known manuscript of notebook poems out of which the Calamus cluster grew, Whitman scholar Betsy Erkkila brings together in a single edition for the first time facsimiles of the Live Oak, with Moss poems, the 1860 Calamus poems, and the final 1881 Calamus poems.

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"This valuable edition riveting attention on the 'Calamus' poems is perfectly timed. Erkkila says they are about 'men loving men--physically, socially, sexually, spiritually, and naturally.' Should 'maritally' be added? 'Calamus, ' arguably the pivot point of Whitman's legacy, can help us decide as Perry v. Schwarzenegger--the landmark federal decision declaring unconstitutional any law prohibiting same-sex marriage--wends its way to the Supreme Court."--Gary Schmidgall, author, "Walt Whitman: A Gay Life"

"How marvelous to enjoy in this one publication the three major versions of Walt Whitman's exquisite poems of love and lust between men, and then Betsy Erkkila's new, provocative analysis of Whitman's revisions of these poems, their sexual and affectional content, and their present import."--Jonathan Ned Katz, author, "Love Stories: Sex between Men before Homosexuality "

This valuable edition riveting attention on the Calamus poems is perfectly timed. Erkkila says they are about men loving men physically, socially, sexually, spiritually, and naturally. Should maritally be added? Calamus, arguably the pivot point of Whitman s legacy, can help us decide as Perry v. Schwarzenegger the landmark federal decision declaring unconstitutional any law prohibiting same-sex marriage wends its way to the Supreme Court. Gary Schmidgall, author, "Walt Whitman: A Gay Life""

How marvelous to enjoy in this one publication the three major versions of Walt Whitman s exquisite poems of love and lust between men, and then Betsy Erkkila s new, provocative analysis of Whitman s revisions of these poems, their sexual and affectional content, and their present import. Jonathan Ned Katz, author, "Love Stories: Sex between Men before Homosexuality ""

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Betsy Erkkila is the Henry Sanborn Noyes Professor of Literature at Northwestern University. She is the author of "Mixed Bloods and Other American Crosses: Rethinking American Literature from the Revolution to the Culture Wars," " The Wicked Sisters: Women Poets, Literary History, and Discord," " Whitman the Political Poet," and "Walt Whitman among the French: Poet and Myth."

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Book Description Softcover. Condition: new. In his 1859 Live Oak, with Moss, Walt Whitmans unpublished sheaf of twelve poems on manly passion, the poet dreams of a city where men who love men can live and love openly. The revised Live Oak, with Moss poems became Calamus, Whitmans cluster of poems on adhesive and manly love, comradeship, and democracy, in Leaves of Grass. Commemorating both the first publication of the Calamus poems and the little-known manuscript of notebook poems out of which the Calamus cluster grew, Whitman scholar Betsy Erkkila brings together in a single edition for the first time the Live Oak, with Moss poems, the 1860 Calamus poems, and the final 1881 Calamus poems. In addition to honoring the sesquicentennial of the Calamus cluster, she celebrates the ongoing legacy of Whitmans songs of manly passion, sex, and love.The volume begins with Whitmans elegantly handwritten manuscript of the Live Oak, with Moss poems, printed side by side with a typeset transcription and followed by a facsimile of the 1860 version of the Calamus poems. The concluding section reprints the final version of the Calamus poems from the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. In an afterword, Erkkila discusses the radical nature of these poems in literary, sexual, and social history; the changes Whitman made in the Live Oak and Calamus poems in the post-Civil War and Reconstruction years; the literary, political, and other contests surrounding the poems; and the constitutive role the poems have played in the emergence of modern heterosexual and homosexual identity in the United States and worldwide. The volume closes with a selected bibliography of works that have contributed to the critical and interpretive struggles around Whitmans man-loving life.One hundred and fifty years after Whitmans brave decision to speak publicly about a fully realized democracy, his country is still locked in a struggle over the rights of homosexuals. These public battles have been at the very center of controversies over the life, work, and legacy of Walt Whitman, Americas (and the worlds) major poet of democracy and its major singer of what he called manly love in all its moods. Together the poems in this omnibus volume affirm his creation of a radical new language designed to convey and affirm the poets man love. Seller Inventory # DADAX1587299585

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