In Walt Whitman of Cosmic Folklore, Alan Botsford has given us
something profound and necessary: a finely and perceptively wrought
affirmation of poetry's mysterious, primal, timeless, and transformative
powers. Himself a poet, Botsford reconsiders our 21st century existence
through Whitman's poetic consciousness—one that thought poetry to
be the direct issue of the body, the soul, the very earth and stars. In an
age of pervasive cynicism, the deification of technology, disconnection
from our bodies and the natural world, the overvaluing of intellect and
reason, and the politicization of art and literature in the academy,
Botsford's book is a crucial reminder that the best poetry puts us back
in touch with "the spiritual ethos of Eros" and "a living connection to
the gods," without which we are not fully human.
—Mari L'Esperance, author of The Darkened Temple |
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Alan Botsford is author of three poetry collections--mamaist: learning a new language (Minato no Hito) which, as the Kyoto Journal wrote, “may be one of the first books of poems to transpire from our global civilization”; A Book of Shadows (Katydid Press) with William I. Elliott; and mamaist: a different sort of light (dark woods press). He has also published the hybrid essay-dialogue-poetry collection Walt Whitman of Cosmic Folklore (Sage Hill Press), about which American poet and critic William Heyen wrote, “If we'll read this book as it was written, with Emerson's 'flower of the mind,' it will enlarge our lives.” Born in Connecticut and educated at Wesleyan University and Columbia University, and formerly editor of Poetry Kanto, he currently is a professor of American literature at Kanto Gakuin University in Yokohama, Japan, is a book reviewer for Kyoto Journal, and lives with his wife, illustrator Minako Saitoh, in the historic seaside town Kamakura.
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