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Whitman’s Cameos
I love it when Walt Whitman makes a cameo in a poem. Reading about Whitman’s skills on the b-ball court in Sherman Alexie’s “Defending Walt Whitman” reminded me of Allen Ginsberg’s trip to the grocery store in “A Supermarket in … Continue reading