Walt Whitman | Walt Whitman
Apr.08.2013
(graphic courtesy of Bright Skylark Literary Productions)
One of the greatest triumphs of the human spirit is the ability to exercise gratitude in the face of grievous adversity. Cultivation of a sense of gratitude under any conditions is advantageous in general because it tames impulses...
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Jun.22.2011
Please see my new Interview with the editor of the Advocate: America's leading LGBT Magazine: http://www.advocate.com/Arts_and_Entertainment/Books/Walt_Whitman_Poet_Shaman/
With the approach of Gay Pride, 2011, I would like to blog on my favorite poet, Walt Whitman. As I show in my book,...
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May.15.2011
Recently I was interviewed by Strategic Books on the content of my book Walt Whitman: Shamanism, Spiritual Democracy, and the World Soul. I am pleased to share it with Red Room members here:
Can you give us a brief description of your book?
The essence of my book is really the evolution of Whitman...
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Jan.04.2011
Conversation #2
(This Conversation is currently being edited. Contact Steven Herrmann for further information).
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Nov.29.2010
On September 7, 2010, my wife Lori and I had a great time in Maryland and Washington D.C. We went with my son and a friend of his to the Library of Congress, where we saw C. G. Jung’s Red Book, across from the Thomas Jefferson library. Then, we each got a library card and the four of us headed...
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Jul.03.2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:WALT WHITMAN:SHAMANISM, SPIRITUAL DEMOCRACY, AND THE WORLD SOUL By Steven B. HerrmannContact: Ellen Green, Press Manager - 'PressManager@aegpublishinggroup.com'Phone: 888-808-6190 – Corporate Office This insightful book begins with the author’s dream, one that urged him to...
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Jul.01.2010
Kudos to Steven Herrmann and Walt Whitman:
A Review of “Walt Whitman: Shamanism, Spiritual Democracy, and the World Soul” (2010) by Steven B. Herrmann.
Published by Eloquent Books, Durham, Connecticut, ISBN 978-1-60911-699-6; available now at: www.Amazon.com. By Matthew Fox
Thanks to Walt...
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May.30.2010
Did you know that Walt Whitman was born in West Hills, Long Island, New York, in a two-story frame house built by his father on May 31, 1819? Let us at the Red Room take a moment on Memorial Day today and celebrate him. Whitman had a profound sense of the miraculous, even in the commonplace, the...
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May.03.2010
I keep working on ideas for writing. I take a day here, a chunk of minutes there, and yet nothing seems to stick these days. Maybe it's that I've fallen in love as of late, or maybe it's that I've been living like a nomad for more months than I care to record, maybe it's a lot of things moving me...
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Jan.14.2010
Incredulous, I literally gasped when I saw the topic "favorite poem." Favorite poem, you have to be kidding. Just one?
But the whole time I was sputtering and spinning the rolodex of my mind filled with lines and titles, I heard only one voice.
Walt Whitman's.
I read "Song of...
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