Walt whitman education
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‘The Kiss of Walt Whitman Still on My Lips’ by Raymond Luczak
I can never understand why poets get bent out of shape when readers assume their poems are autobiographical when the first person ‘I’ is used.
“Haven’t they heard of a lyric ‘I’?,” they’ll say. “My poems are about so much more than me.”
I’ve always seen it as a testament to the poet’s skill that a reader would want to make that assumption. After all, a poet asks us to use our imagination to enter a world other than our immediate one.
Raymond Luczak’s new collection of poetry, The Kiss of Walt Whitman Still on My Lips, is a book so good that it makes us want to imagine there is no fictional barrier between the author and us.
Divided in five different sections with almost all poems approximately nine lines in length, the collection teases us with the idea of an organized tribute to Whitman, which is an earnest deception. No gay poet can restrain themselves that much when dealing with one of their heroes. The entrances and the exits of the divided parts provoke in intriguing ways, especially with the real world no
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Walt Disney: An American Original
Walt Disney was truly a genius that could move mountains and oceans. His ideas were so far ahead of everything else that it took teams of people to construct. The story of Walt Disney is that of a true American original because one, he grew up living the small town farm life to the hustle and bustle of somewhat city life. He started working as a basic artist making small cartoons and creating characters and small comics from that.
He struggled with getting established but to him, the issue of money was something he never worrie
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Chaim Witz was born August 25th 1949 in Haifa, Israel to Hungarian-Jewish parents. His mother Florence was a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp, and his father Chaim was a carpenter. Five years after his birth his parents separated, and when Chaim was only nine his mother brought him to live in the "Land of Opportunity" - the United States of America. Mother and son settled in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. Understandably the move wasn't easy for the boy newly renamed Gene Klein, as he couldn't even speak the native language, let alone fit in with the culture.
As a child Gene was introduced to his first love - comic books and cartoons! After watching the documentary "Man of a Thousand Faces" about the legendary actor Lon Chaney Gene was infected with a passion for horror movies. With the help of these new interests, television commercials and Walt Disney movies, Gene picked up the English language - added to a vocabulary which also included Hebrew, Spanish, Turkish and Hungarian! After seeing the historic Beatles appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 Gene's life was
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