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A greener Whitman.(Walt Whitman and the Earth)(Book Review)

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From: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
Date: 20051101
Author:Klawitter, George

Walt Whitman and the Earth

by M. Jimmie Killingsworth

University of Iowa Press. 225 pages, $39.95

THIS BOOK had to happen at some point. Someone had to embrace Whitman as an environmentalist, and thus we have Killingsworth's Walt Whitman and the Earth, demonstrating yet again that Whitman is larger than himself, extending beyond 19th-century America to embrace the ages. Over the past half-century, gay rights enthusiasts have worked aggressively to assimilate the good gray poet, who became the good "gay" poet on the basis of some striking lines scattered throughout ...

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