Jan 7, 2023 | Essays, Images, Non-Fiction |
aka America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly As Walt Whitman gazed down the democratic vistas of culture, he tried to see beyond the difference between beauty and ugliness, importance and triviality. It seemed to him servile or snobbish to make any discriminations of...
Oct 27, 2018 | Fiction, Poetry |
I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table When company comes. Nobody’ll dare Say to me, “Eat in the kitchen,” Then. Besides, They’ll...
Oct 13, 2018 | Fiction, Poetry |
1 I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul. Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own...
Aug 30, 2010 | Poetry, Videos |
The untold want by life and land ne’er granted, Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find. The film takes it’s title from Walt Whitman’s The Untold Want (complete above), and the voyager of the title is played by Bette Davis. The nature of her...
