Table of Contents:
  • Plunged tongue pungent: an introduction to Walt Whitman
  • Calamus lover: Fred Vaughan
  • Myriads of new experiences: Whitman's notebooks and daybooks
  • Many soldier's kisses: Tom Sawyer, Lewis Brown, Alonzo Bush and Elijah Douglass Fox
  • Hustling the good gay poet: Nicholas Palmer
  • Whirled among sophistications: Peter Doyle
  • Tricks of the trade: Jack Rogers and Jo Baldwin
  • Timber Creek: Harry Stafford
  • Man-boy lovers: Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett
  • Bathing my songs in sex: selected poems of Walt Whitman.