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I saw before me, sitting on the counter, a handsome, burly man, heavily built, and not looking, to my
me as more of a man, more of a democratic man, than the tallest of Whitman's roughs; to the eye of my
love had no bounds—all that my natural fastidiousness and cautious reserve kept from others I poured
Whitman might say to him "'od's my life, Saint Thomas, I am Snug the joiner & no lion, in this poem,
I, for my part, am no believer in the sacredness of the marriage ceremony, can imagine a perfect pure
Ken recommended that in preparation for my work I read the chapter of Guidelines for Electronic Text
imagining "gentle" to mean gradual and pleasant, as in "a gentle slope," so I pictured myself easing my
Though I found the "gentle introduction" daunting and more often blunt than gentle, by working my way
My experiences since those first days have only reinforced my initial impressions; as I've worked at
Perhaps a portion of my frustrations (and also insights) are the result of Ken's somewhat fortuitous
When Whitman egged him to comment on “My Captain” (a poem Whitman himself several times ridiculed in
“O Captain! My Captain!”
Whitmanletsfly:“I’mhonestwhenIsay,damn‘MyCaptain’andallthe ‘My Captains’ in my book!
”thatturnedthepoetagainstit:“In some cases, as in Whitman’s ‘O Captain, My Captain,’ the high-water mark
My Captain!