primal
sanities!
a tribute to Walt Whitman
an Anthology of Poems and Essays
edited by Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) and George Wallace
give me again O Nature your primal sanities!
~
Walt Whitman
from "Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun
A
collection of poems and essays paying homage to
Long Island
born
and
world renowned. . . Walt Whitman.
Includes
the writings of Maxwell Corydon Wheat, Jr., selected by his poetry peers
as Nassau County Poet Laureate.
David
Axelrod,
Suffolk
County
's
new poet laureate
Suffolk
County
's
first poet laureate, George Wallace
Vince
Clemente, who
will be awarded the Long Island School of Poetry, Poet
of the Year
Award, at
the Walt Whitman Birthplace in October
10
page essay "Poets to Come: Teaching Whitman in High School" by
NYC high school teacher,
Bill Zavatsky, and an essay from one of his students.
Poems by
Dominican Republic
writer, Pedro Mir (1913-2000), translations by Jonathan Cohen
43 contributors in all - male and female, (plus
Whitman!) - 35 of which live on/in Long Island/NYC.
A
collection of poems and essays paying homage to
Long
Island
born
and
world renowned. . . Walt Whitman.
The anthology is actually a bunch of
"letters," love letters, disguised as poems and essays for, to,
about, referencing, riffing off of, contemplating, mimicking, attempting
to define, embrace, even call to task, and otherwise sit down and have a
meal and a drink with... the father of American poetry.
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS: Dr. David B. Axelrod,
Edgar Carlson, Vince Clemente, Jonathan Cohen, Gary Corseri, Mark
Donnelly, Sasha Ettinger, Darrel Blaine Ford, Jean Franco, Ray Freed,
Geraldine Green, Mankh (Walter E. Harris III), Gladys Henderson, Evelyn
Kandel, Rita Katz, Ann Kenna, Jeanette Klimszewski, Charlene Babb Knadle,
Norbert Krapf, Mindy Kronenberg, Ali Lebow, D. H. Melhem, Pedro Mir
(1913-2000), Annabelle Moseley, Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan, Anthony Policano,
Christina M. Rau, Ruth Sabath Rosenthal, Andrea Rowen, Richard Savadsky,
Robert Savino, Alan Semerdjian,
Genevieve
Shore
, Barbara Southard, Douglas G. Swezey, J R (Judy) Turek, Pramila
Venkateswaran, George Wallace, Muriel Harris Weinstein, Maxwell Corydon
Wheat, Jr., Martin Willitts, Jr., Ernie Wormwood, Bill Zavatsky.
O take my hand Walt Whitman!
Such gliding
wonders! such sights and sounds!
Such join'd
unended links, each hook'd to the next,
Each answering
all, each sharing the earth with all.
~ Walt Whitman
from "Salut au Monde!"
