I Sing The Body Electric Comments

If Whitman wasn't a Christian, at least his poetic praise of human nature as an amalgamation of body and soul is closer to biblical theology than the heretical dualism separating them in most religious thinking. Although he didn't write of their reintegration after death by resurrection, his poem's bold body language inspired my own in I Sing the Body Immortal, where I embrace this future hope of a personal and literal resurrection that eternally defines us as physically embodied spiritual beings.