From the Archive
Issue 08
The Proof of a Poet
1986

Table of Contents
- “Whitman’s Mother-Image: Feminist, with Reservations”
by Patricia Falk - “Piety and Home”
by William Heyen - “‘Hankering, Gross, Mystical, Nude’: Whitman’s ‘Self’ and the American Tradition”
by Daniel Hoffman - “Whitman, Twain, and the ‘unkillable’ Leaves of Grass”
by Justin Kaplan - “Remarks at the Dedication of the Walt Whitman Library”
by Douglas Morea - “Whitman’s Addresses to His Audience”
by Tenney Nathanson
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Issue Credits
Mickle Street Review is sponsored and published by the Department of English at the Camden campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Click here for a PDF of the scholars, poets, and artists who contributed to this issue.
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EDITOR
Geoffrey M. SillCONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Donald Kummings
Jean Pearson
Lisa ZeidnerEDITORIAL ASSISTANCE
LaVarne CrewART EDITOR
John GiannottiDISTRIBUTION
Ellen ShipleeWALT WHITMAN FELLOW, 1985-86
Carl NittingerINTERPRETER OF WALT WHITMAN HOUSE
Eleanor Ray
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“The Promise Is” by Kip Zegers first appeared in Ironwood 21 and is used by permission of Michael Cuddihy.
Cover: Woodcut by Wharton Esherick illustrating Whitman’s “Song of the Broad-Axe,” (1924), currently part of an exhibit at the Walt Whitman House and Library.
Part of the Camden Online Poetry Project.
Copyright | Rutgers University – Camden.
Supported in part by a grant from the
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.