![]() ![]() It grows in marshes and is like a cat-tail. The most important is the Calamus root itself: acorus calamus, or Sweet Flag. The cluster of poems have many images and motifs that are repeated throughout. They celebrate and promote "the manly love of comrades." It is thought that the poems are Whitman's clearest expressions in print of his ideas about homosexual love. Whitman wrote the first hint of them in 1859. The "Calamus" poems are actually a cluster of poems. ![]() It was done for an exhibition in NYC called Walt Whitman: The 150th Anniversary of the Calamus Poems, Leaves of Grass. Each was then cut out and mounted on my 30x20 inch painted (acrylic) canvas. Found b&w photos (tin types, cabinet photos, snapshots, etc.) of male couples were enlarged, hand-colored with ink, photo dyes, markers, and/or acrylics. Around the edge is a verse from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Whitman 150th Anniversary Calamus Poems Leaves of Grass is a mixed media work on canvas. ![]()
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