CREDITS
Editor – Geoffrey M. Sill
Associate Editor – David S. Reynolds
Contributing Editors
Contents
Daniel Aron – “Whitman and the Founding Fathers”
Robert Cooperman “Martha Darbanville Arrives in Oregon, 1854”
Dan Murray – “Another Lesson”
Sharon Cumberland – “On Brooklyn Heights Promenade”
Margaret Stuart – “Launch Pad”
Eliot Katz – “As I Stand Before Your Grave, Camerado”
Brian Carr – “Walt Whitman, 1987”
David S. Reynolds – “Whitman the Radical Democrat”
Steve Kowit – “A Whitman Portrait”
Ed Folsom – “Whitman and the Visual Democracy of Photography”
Eric Trethewey – “Periphery”
John Tritica – “The First and Last Reading”
A. D. Winans – “Poem for Whitman”
R. W. French – “Walt to Ezra”
Peter Balakian – “Whitman as Jeremiah”
Antler – “Walt Whitman, Camerado”
Matthew Carr – “On Riding the Staten Island Ferry for the First Time”
Gary Pacernick – “To Walt Whitman”
Jim Cory – “At Whitman’s Tomb”
1987 Walt Whitman Association Poetry Contest Winners
Joe Elder – “ The Window of Democracy”
Josh Ferg – “ The Ebbs of Youth”
Marge Vining – “Allegheny”
Rebecca Pepa – “I Hear America Crying”
Reviews
Howard Nelson – George B. Hutchinson, The Ecstatic Whitman: Literary Shamanism and
the Crisis of the Union
Kenneth M. Price – Charles Shively, ed., Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman’s Working-Class
Camerados
Donald D. Kummings – Horace Traubel, ed., An American primer by Walt Whitman
Betsy Erikkila – Edward F. Grier, ed., Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts