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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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