
Publications and Research
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Fall 2013
Abstract
This article considers Whitman's "Respondez" - perhaps his strangest poem. It seeks to explicate the poem by looking at his shifting use of the word "let." The article draws on studies of queer theory, nationalism, modernism, to reveal an unfamiliar and far more radical Whitman than we are familiar with.
Comments
This work was originally published in Arizona Quarterly.