Excuse time - my lack of posts in the last week and a half comes from me being extremely behind in my coursework, after making a journey to Victoria, BC to present a paper at the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English Conference on The Life and Adventures of Nat Love (a fascinating autobiography of a 19th century black cowboy that I'll be devoting a post to in the near future). While I'm almost up to speed on my class reading, the busyness has left no time for comps reading. Fortunately, one of my courses this semester explores the rhetoric of sound, noise, voice, music, and silence in 19th and 20th century American writing, and hence, some of the reading for this course overlaps with what I'll have to read for my CAE. This week, the "overlap" text is poetry from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.
