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“an image of the dead on the fingernail of a newborn child”

Channeling Anarchy after Whitman: “Of all nations the United States with veins full of poetical stuff most needs poets…Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their poets shall.” “He is the arbiter of the diverse and … Continue reading

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“Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs”

Channeling Anarchy Through Walt Whitman Specimen 5: Re-materialism or, Pirates know things more sublimely. “I moisten the roots of all that has grown” Song of Myself, 22 Watching me, glorious, bite into a soppy peach, the lysol-shined floor under my … Continue reading

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“Because I have dared to open my mouth to sing at all”

Channeling Anarchy through Whitman Specimen 4: The Burden of Witness “The suicide sprawls on the bloody floor of the bedroom,”   Song of Myself, 8 “What is absent makes the world what it is.” History of the Always Pain, Jennifer Militello … Continue reading

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“To find me now will cost you everything.”

Channeling Anarchy through Whitman Specimen 1: The Ghost of Whitman In his 1980s poem, “Whitman“, Larry Levis sings the displaced Whitman. By the 80’s The State had taken Whitman and made him “required reading in high schools” only for inhibited … Continue reading

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