Walt Whitman's Secret: George Fetherling

Jun 2 2010 - 7:30pm
Jun 2 2010 - 9:00pm

Location

Alma VanDusen Room, Lower Level
Central Library
Vancouver, BC
Canada
49° 14' 54.6828" N, 123° 6' 31.68" W

In George Fetherling's wonderfully imagined novel, Walt Whitman's secret isn't his homosexuality but another one entirely. It's a political secret, one that the greatest American poet of the nineteenth century has pledged himself to keep.