PORTER, Bern

Think of Porter as a twentieth-century Walt Whitman, a sometime printer and courageous publisher, a longtime servant of both U.S. letters and his own very American muse. He began as a physicist, only to become disillusioned with science during World War II. By its end, he published the first critical anthology on Henry Miller . The Waste Maker (1972) represents Porter's assiduous discovery of America writ large in the smallestfound details, which he exposes in the guise of details, which he exposes in the guise of ...