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Walt Whitman Bathing

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From: Poetry
Date: 19980101
Author:Taylor, John

Walt Whitman Bathing, by David Wagoner. University of Illinois Press. $11.95.

One way of interpreting the adage "art is long, but life is short" is to point out the difficulty of attaining clarity. David Wagoner knows what this challenge implies, for Walt Whitman Bathing confirms once again his ability to arrive at an admirable transparency, without compromising stylistic nuance or philosophical scope. Even when gently ironic (see the touching "For a Woman Who Phoned Poetry Northwest Thinking It Was Poultry Northwest"), the man advances maskless, costume-less, bearing a precious gift: ...

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