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