Volume 28 • Issue 1/2 • 2010
About cover image
A photograph by Theona Peck Harris of "John Burroughs reading Leaves of Grass by Whitman" (so inscribed on the back of the photo). Burroughs (1836-1917) was Whitman's close friend and disciple as well as one of America's great nature writers. In this photo, he appears to be reading the 1892 "Deathbed edition" of Leaves, open to "Song of the Open Road," pp. 124-125. Harris's photograph was the basis for the frontispiece in Clara Barrus's Our Friend John Burroughs (1914). The photo, along with two others of Burroughs reading Leaves, is part of the Glenn Schaeffer Walt Whitman Collection, University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections.
Front Matter
Essays
"Undrape!": On Naked Readers in Melville and Whitman
- Alan Trachtenberg
Volume 28 • Issue 1/2 • 2010 • 1-18
"As if the beasts spoke": The Animal/Animist/Animated Walt Whitman
- M. Jimmie Killingsworth
Volume 28 • Issue 1/2 • 2010 • 19-35
From Syphilitic to Suffragist: The Woman's Journal and the Negotiation of Walt Whitman's Celebrity
- Todd H. Richardson
Volume 28 • Issue 1/2 • 2010 • 36-53
Notes
Los Angeles, 1960: John F. Kennedy and Whitman's Ship of Democracy
- David Haven Blake
Volume 28 • Issue 1/2 • 2010 • 60-64
Reviews
Hass, Robert, ed., Walt Whitman, Song of Myself and Other Poems, and C. K. Williams, On Whitman [review]
- Ed Folsom
Volume 28 • Issue 1/2 • 2010 • 65-68
Herrero Brasas, Juan A. Walt Whitman's Mystical Ethics of Comradeship: Homosexuality and the Marginality of Friendship at the Crossroads of Modernity [review]
- Gary Schmidgall
Volume 28 • Issue 1/2 • 2010 • 69-74
Lause, Mark A. The Antebellum Crisis & America's First Bohemians, and Joanna Levin, Bohemia in America, 1858-1920 [review]
- Stephanie M. Blalock
Volume 28 • Issue 1/2 • 2010 • 75-78
Bibliography
Walt Whitman: A Current Bibliography, Summer/Fall 2010
- Ed Folsom
Volume 28 • Issue 1/2 • 2010 • 79-86