Reading Brass Neck, one thinks of Whitman’s passion for the body and insistence that one’s on the connection of all of our bodies, our voices, our pain and pleasure. Of course, Whitman wasn’t the first to give us the poetics of the body. The poems of this book make one think of Sappho and Catullus as much as they do of Whitman. And, yet, it is Walt’s “barbaric yawp on the rooftops of the world” that echoes so much into our own era.

Author: Ms Victoria Naa Takia Nunoo

Language: English