Issue 8 | Mickle Street Review

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Issue 08

The Proof of a Poet

1986

“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

Bruce Agte, “Brooklyn” & “Rust”
Gilbert Allen, “Sonnet $9.95”
Bernard Bomba, “This Side of Silence”
Mary Belle Campbell, “June in North Carolina”
R. W. French, “Going to Delos”
Michael Holstein, “A Primal Scene”
Aaron Kramer, “Legacy”
Macushla Nugent, “Whitman Comes to Baltimore”
Nathaniel Philbrick, “Walt Whitman at Edgar Allan Poe’s Funeral”
Richard Raleigh, “On the Centennial of Whitman’s New Phaeton, Donated by Friends in 1885”
Elliot Richman, “To My Head Expander, Not My Shrink”
William Stafford, “My Father Saw Halley’s Comet”
William J. Vernon, “Hard Maples”
Kip Zegers, “The Promise Is”

Harold Aspiz – A gnieszka Salska, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson: Poetry of the Central Consciousness
Angela Ball – Raymond Carver, Where Water Comes Together with Other Water
Kathy Blake – Charles Willard, Whitman’s American Fame: The Growth of his Reputation in America After 1892
Jessica Chielli – Edwin Haviland Miller, The Artistic Legacy of Walt Whitman
Anthony Giacoppo – C. Carroll Hollis, Language and Style in Leaves of Grass
David Graham – Mary Fell, The Persistence of Memory
William R. Kanouse – Justin Kaplan, Walt Whitman: A Life
Katherine Kinney – Daniel Aaron, The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War
William K. O’Brien – Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic
Hazel L. Redman – James E. Miller, Jr., The American Quest for a Supreme Fiction: Whitman’s Legacy in the Personal Epic
David S. Reynolds – David Cavitch, My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman
Geoffrey Sill – Florence Bernstein Freedman, William Douglas O’Connor: Walt Whitman’s Chosen Knight

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.

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EDITOR
Geoffrey M. Sill

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Donald Kummings
Jean Pearson
Lisa Zeidner

EDITORIAL ASSISTANCE
LaVarne Crew

ART EDITOR
John Giannotti

DISTRIBUTION
Ellen Shiplee

WALT WHITMAN FELLOW, 1985-86
Carl Nittinger

INTERPRETER 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.

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From the Archive

Issue 08

The Proof of a Poet

1986

Introduction by Geoffrey Sill

Table of Contents

Issue Credits

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