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Walt Whitman

May Short Fuses – Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review, Short Fuses Tagged: 2 Cents, Adam Nussbaum, Allen Michie, David Stewart, Douglas Olsen, Enfant Terrible, Federal Art Project (FAP) of the Works Progress Administration, Gene Perla, Gene Perla 3 Trios, Harvard University Press, Mark Edmundson, Michael Ullman, Naga, New Deal For Artists, New World Records, Ojoyo Plays Safrojazz, PM Records, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Scott Wheeler, Song of Ourselves, Steve Provizer, Sunnyside, Walt Whitman, Wieland Schultz-Keil’

Arts Commentary: Consider the Self — I am George Floyd. I am Derek Chauvin.

I am Derek Chauvin, and I am George Floyd. Who are you?

By: Patrick Conway Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured Tagged: Derek Chauvin, George Floyd, Patrick Conway, Song of Myself, Walt Whitman

Book Review: Long Live 19th-Century Literature!

Like Nina Antonia and Robert Clark, Mark Doty deftly interweaves personal narrative with his literary concerns.

By: Tim Francis Barry Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: ​Incurable: The Haunted Writings of Lionel Johnson, Lionel Johnson, Mark Doty, My Victorians: Lost In The Nineteenth Century, Robert Clark, Tim Francis Barry, Victorians, Walt Whitman, What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman In My Life

Poetry Review: Richard J. Fein’s “Whitman/Vitman” — A Vigorous Homage

It’s hard to think of a contemporary poet who has engaged so passionately and devotedly, over many decades, with a single forebear.

By: Susan de Sola Rodstein Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Finishing Line Press, Poetry, Richard-J.-Fein, Walt Whitman, Whitman/Vitman

Theater Review: “I and You”—Sounding a “Barbaric Yawp”

This gem of a play that is guaranteed to make you gasp at its surprising conclusion and leave the theater reveling in its lush language and the outstanding performances.

By: Glenn Rifkin Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: I and You, Lauren Gunderson, Leaves of Grass, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Sean Daniels, Walt Whitman

Book Review: Getting Closer To Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman is an exuberant poet, and fellow versifier C. K. Williams is exuberant about Whitman in this wonderfully perceptive introduction to his poetry. On Whitman (Writers on Writers) by C. K. Williams. Princeton University Press, 208 pages, $19.95 Reviewed by Anthony Wallace On Whitman is a meditation on the life and work of the […]

By: Anthony Wallace Filed Under: Books, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: American poetry, Anthony Wallace, C. K. Williams, On Whitman, Poetry, Princeton University Press, Walt Whitman

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