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Article: Walt Whitman: a Gay Life.(Walt Whitman: Selected Poems, 1855-1892. A New Edition)(Book Review)
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- February 1, 2001
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Walt Whitman: A Gay Life. By Gary Schmidgall. New York: Plume, 1997. $14.95 (pa.)
Walt Whitman: Selected Poems, 1855-1892. A New Edition. Edited by Gary Schmidgall. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. $32.50. Stonewall Inn Edition, 2000. $19.95 (pa.)
Walt Whitman left two especially complicated and subtle areas for scholars and readers to contemplate: the sexual and the textual. On the sexual side, it's quite amazing that there is still anything mysterious or controversial left about Whitman. He made a ground-breaking commitment to candor and frankness. There is a wealth of evidence, in the poems, letters and notebooks, and the testimony of those who ...