Walt Whitman Bathing
Poems
A collection from the acclaimed author of Through the Forest
Paper – $22
978-0-252-06570-5
Publication Date
Paperback: 08/01/1996
About the Book
When David Wagoner's last collection was published, Harold Bloom noted that Wagoner's "study of American nostalgias is as eloquent and moving as that of James Wright, and like Wright's poetry carries on some of the deepest currents in American verse." The same could be said of Walt Whitman Bathing, in which Wagoner's poems range from the lyric to the satiric, the elegiac to the transcendental, and serve as the autobiographical ode to a visionary giant of American letters.About the Author
David Wagoner (d. 2021) was a poet, novelist, longtime editor of Poetry Northwest, and professor at the University of Washington. His many works included the National Book Award-nominated collections Collected Poems and In Broken Country, and the novels The Escape Artist and The Hanging Garden.Also by this author
Reviews
Praise for David Wagoner:"Wagoner has the visual acuity of his loved hawks and a lifelong absorption with living and growing things. A lovely wit and a lively intelligence inform these poems."
—Maxine Kumin
"When Wagoner looks at something, he brings it to vivid and immediate life through an extraordinary power with a simple name: love. He is as formally various as Thomas Hardy, as playful as Dickinson, as wry as Frost."
—Dave Smith
"A sharp-eyed, even gutsy nature poet, the deftest and tenderest of love poets, Wagoner is a verbal magician capable of surprising, sometimes crazy tours de force."
—X. J. Kennedy
Awards
• Winner, Ohioana Award, 1997Related Titles
