Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: "Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus"

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Walt Whitman’s Songs of Male Intimacy and Love    “Live Oak, with Moss” and “Calamus” Edited by Betsy Erkkila University of Iowa Press, Iowa City University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright © 2011 by the University of Iowa Press www.uiowapress.org Printed in the United States of America Design by Richard Hendel No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher. All reasonable steps have been taken to contact copyright holders of material used in this book. The publisher would be pleased to make suitable arrangements with any whom it has not been possible to reach. The University of Iowa Press is a member of Green Press Initiative and is committed to preserving natural resources. Printed on acid-free paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Whitman, Walt, 1819–1892. [Poems. Selections.] Walt Whitman’s songs of male intimacy and love: “Live oak, with moss” and “Calamus” / edited by Betsy Erkkila. p. cm.—(The Iowa Whitman series, ISSN 1556-5610) Includes bibliographical references. Summary: This volume includes Whitman’s handwritten manuscript version of the twelve “Live oak, with moss” poems alongside a print transcription of these poems on the opposite page, followed by a facsimile of the original version of the “Calamus” poems published in the 1860–61 edition of Leaves of grass, and a reprint of the final version of the “Calamus” poems in the 1881 edition of Leaves of grass. ISBN-13: 978-1-58729-958-2 (pbk.), ISBN-10: 1-58729-958-5 (pbk.) ISBN-13: 978-1-58729-959-9 (ebk.), ISBN-10: 1-58729-959-3 (ebk.) 1. Homosexuality—Poetry. I. Erkkila, Betsy, 1944– II. Whitman, Walt, 1819–1892. Live oak, with moss. III. Whitman, Walt, 1819–1892. Calamus. IV. Title. PS3204.E75 2011 811'.3—dc22 2010038901 To Robert K. Martin I will lift what has too long kept down those smouldering fires, I will give them complete abandonment, I will write the evangel-poem of comrades, and of love, (For who but I should understand love, with all its sorrow and joy? And who but I should be the poet of comrades?) Walt Whitman, “Proto-Leaf” ...