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Arts: Angels in America Duane Michals pays homage to Walt Whitman in a series of sensual works. By Ian Phillips

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 19990910
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AT THE age of 17, Duane Michals saved up two weeks of his salary as a paper-boy and for five dollars bought his first ever volume of poetry - Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. What he read made an indelible impression on him. "He spoke to me directly and he spoke with a great vitality and a great openness and honesty", says Michals in his Greenwich Village apartment. "Also, at that point, being a gay person, I began to identify with what he was talking about. It was a revelation."

Michals has kept the book ever since and in 1995 published his own homage to the great American poet entitled ...

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