Abstract
"Poets to come! Arouse! For you must justify me!" Answering the challenge that Whitman issued nearly 150 years ago, this book has gathered together 100 poems by 100 poets, bearing witness to Whitman's enormous influence on American and global literature.
Visiting Walt is a vivid reminder that poetry is nothing less that the greatest conversation ever held. No poet spoke more ardently to the future than Whitman, and here, he is answered by a democratic chorus of his descendants--a hundred of his children talking back to their looming, inescapable, fathomless father. --Billy Collins.
| Original language | American English |
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| Title of host publication | Visiting Walt: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Walt Whitman |
| State | Published - 2003 |
Keywords
- American Poetry
- Poetry
- Poets
- Walt Whitman
Disciplines
- Arts and Humanities
- Creative Writing
- Poetry