The Language of Sexuality: Walt Whitman and Galway Kinnell

Explores Kinnell\u27s "indebtedness to Whitman" by examining Kinnell\u27s prose statements and his poems, especially "The Waking" and "Flying Home"; argues that "Kinnell\u27s verse echoes Whitman\u27s not only in its claim that the soul is not to be revered above the body but in its understanding of humanity\u27s need to realign itself with the rest of creation.