http://emilym.lookingforwhitman.org/2009/10/22/walking-sticks-gifts-friends-some-musings/ Just another Looking for Whitman weblog Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:40:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.30 http://emilym.lookingforwhitman.org/2009/10/22/walking-sticks-gifts-friends-some-musings/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:44:16 +0000 http://emilym.lookingforwhitman.org/?p=48#comment-8 Our Mary Washington Whitmanians actually witnessed this little staff firsthand inside the Library of Congress on Saturday. I cannot tell you how strange it was to face the physical reality of this and other objects that float around the Whitman narrative, even though our “Material Culture Museum” purportedly concretizes what we otherwise just imagine. The intersection of Whitman, the bearded, cane-leaning corporeal fact, and his poetic persona(e) has never felt closer.

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