Roger W. Smith's Walt Whitman site

This site is devoted to Walt Whitman: his works, life, and my personal associaton with his works. Besides poetry, there are posts about music inspired by Whitman. Several posts focus on Whitman's New York.

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a disservice to Walt Whitman

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a disservice to Walt Whitman

 

This entry was posted in Whitman's sexuality and tagged "Walt Whitman Poet of a Contradictory America" By Jesse Green New York Times Magazine September 14 2020, John Addington Symonds, Ralph Colp Jr., Ralph Colp Jr. MD, Roger Smith, Roger W. Smith, Roger W. Smith a disservice to Walt Whitman, Whitman celebrated sexuality -- all sexual desires and behaviors -- and he celebrated freedom including the freedom to NOT be defined by any particular bent of those sexual desires., Whitman’s poetry isn’t gay. It’s pan-sexual free to ever cross borders and return back -- completely on September 16, 2020 by Roger W. Smith.
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