Name: Part 8: Exactly The Same To All In All Nations
Duration: P00H01M24S
Description: Whitman touches on the aspects of the enslaved body much more lightly here before going back to his relatively starry-eyed universalism. I wish he had continued to dig into the subject here in Body Electric, but in the rest of Leaves of Grass he continues to touch on it ("I am the hounded slave, I wince at the bite of the dogs..." from Song of Myself, for example).

Part 8: Exactly The Same To All In All Nations

from I Sing The Body Electric by Matt Riggen

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Whitman touches on the aspects of the enslaved body much more lightly here before going back to his relatively starry-eyed universalism. I wish he had continued to dig into the subject here in Body Electric, but in the rest of Leaves of Grass he continues to touch on it ("I am the hounded slave, I wince at the bite of the dogs..." from Song of Myself, for example).

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A woman’s body at auction,
She too is not only herself, she is the teeming mother of mothers,
She is the bearer of them that shall grow and be mates to the mothers.

Have you ever loved the body of a woman?
Have you ever loved the body of a man?
Do you not see that these are exactly the same to all in all nations and times all over the earth?

If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred,
And the glory and sweet of a man is the token of manhood untainted,
And in man or woman a clean, strong, firm-fibred body, is more beautiful than the most beautiful face.

Have you seen the fool that corrupted his own live body? or the fool that corrupted her own live body?
For they do not conceal themselves, and cannot conceal themselves.

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from I Sing The Body Electric, released May 1, 2020
Walt Whitman: poetry
Matt Riggen: narration, composition, trumpet, trombones, tuba, upright bass

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