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A long-overdue comparative study of the American voice in hemispheric poetry, Poet-Chief brings cross-cultural and interdisciplinary considerations to the work of Whitman and Neruda. Nolan proposes American Indian poetics as the model for the poets' own poetics. Whitman and Neruda wrote from an Americanist perspective. Both developed an oral, tribal poetics and assumed shamanic voices and personae in their major works, Leaves of Grass and Canto General. In addition they each presented the initiatory journey of a shaman in "The Sleepers" and "Alturas de Macchu Picchu." Despite the historical, cultural, and individual distinctions between their works, they both celebrate a tribal community and assume the functions of what Whitman calls the "poet-chief." These points of intersection between the poetics of Whitman, Neruda, and the American Indian clarify the nature of that broader voice identified as the native in American poetry. This fresh reading of two major American poets helps to break through the partitions that separate the native, English, and Spanish poetic responses to the American hemisphere.

Literature, Comparative --- Literature and anthropology --- Oral tradition --- Indians in literature. --- Indians --- Poetics. --- Comparative literature --- Indian aesthetics. --- Indians in literature --- Indian aesthetics --- Poetics --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- Poetry --- Aesthetics, Indian --- Indians of North America --- Aesthetics --- Indians of Central America in literature --- Indians of Mexico in literature --- Indians of North America in literature --- Indians of South America in literature --- Indians of the West Indies in literature --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Oral history --- Anthropology and literature --- Anthropology --- Philology --- Aborigines, American --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- Amerindians --- Amerinds --- Pre-Columbian Indians --- Precolumbian Indians --- Ethnology --- Indigenous peoples --- American and Chilean. --- Chilean and American. --- Aesthetics. --- American and Chilean --- Chilean and American --- Technique --- History and criticism --- Civilization --- Whitman, Walt, --- Neruda, Pablo, --- Reyes, Neftalí Ricardo, --- Basoalto, Neftalí Ricardo Reyes, --- Nīrūdā, Bāblū, --- Reyes Basoalto, Neftalí, --- Nieh-lu-ta, --- Nieluda, --- Reyes Basualto, Neftalí, --- Basualto, Neftalí Reyes, --- Nerūtā, Pāplō, --- Nerouda, Pamplo, --- Bosoalto, Neftali Ricardo Reyes, --- נערודא, פאבלא --- 聶鲁达, --- Ouïtman, Ouōlt, --- Uitman, Uolʹt, --- Uitmen, Uot, --- Uitmen, Uolt, --- Viṭman̲, Vālṭ, --- Vālṭ Viṭman̲, --- Witʻŭmŏn, --- Ṿiṭman, Ṿolṭ, --- Vālṭviṭman̲, --- Waltvitmen, --- Whitman, Walter, --- Huiteman, --- Veeitman, --- Уитмен, Уолт, --- ויטמן, וולט, --- װיטמאן, װאלט, --- ويتمن، والت، --- Vitmen, Volt, --- Uitman, Uollt, --- Huiteman, Huate, --- 華特·惠特曼, --- Neruda, Pablo --- Literature and anthropology. --- Oral tradition.