Whitman's Queer Children America's Homosexual Epics

"Davies presents a well-researched analysis of not only the poems, but of the poets, the historical contexts and societies during which they lived and wrote, and, not least importantly, of the ways in which each, in his own way, engaged with the burden of living and writing in the shadow of the man who first (publicly) expressed the need for America to consider a more diverse and inclusive identity." - Chisomo Kalinga, King's College London