The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman: The Life after the Life (Iowa Whitman Series)

Reading Gay America : Walt Whitman, Henry James, And The Politics Of Reception / Eric Savoy -- Langston Hughes And The Other Whitman / George B. Hutchinson -- Whitman's Indifference To Indians / Maurice Kenny -- Tropes Of Selfhood : Whitman's Expressive Individualism / M. Jimmie Killingsworth -- Rereading Whitman Under Pressure Of Aids : His Sex Radicalism And Ours / Michael Moon -- A Serpent In The Grass : Reading Walt Whitman And Frank O'hara / David Eberly -- Whispering Whitman To The Ears Of Others : Ronald Johnson's Recipe For Leaves Of Grass / Ed Folsom -- Free Verse In Whitman And Ginsberg : The Body And The Simulacrum / Amitai Avi-ram -- (cont.) Fetishizing America : David Hockney And Thom Gunn / Robert K. Martin -- Still On My Lips : Walt Whitman In Britain / Gregory Woods -- Walt Whitman In Ontario / Michael Lynch -- Atlantic Poets : Discovery As Metaphor And Ideology / Maria Irena Ramalho De Sousa Santos -- Pessoa And Whitman : Brothers In The Universe / Susan Margaret Brown -- Whitman's Live Oak With Moss / Alan Helms -- Forays Against The Republic / Thom Gunn -- A Postscript On Whitman / Ned Rorem -- Loving Walt Whitman And The Problem Of America / Alicia Ostriker -- Letters To Walt Whitman / Ronald Johnson. Edited By Robert K. Martin. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [245]-255) And Index. Historian Kenneth Lyftogt introduces us to the volunteer soldiers of the Pioneer Grays and Cedar Falls Reserves infantry companies and in turn examines Iowa's role in the Civil War. Many of these soldiers served the Union for the duration of the war, from the early fighting in Missouri to Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Sherman's destructive marches through Georgia and the Carolinas. Their letters home are Lyftogt's primary sources, as are editorials and articles published in the Cedar Falls Gazette.