M. C. Gardner

Eliot & Elvis: Two plays using music and verse to explore the wastelands of two American Icons--T.S. Eliot and Elvis Aaron Presley. The Man From Lloyds visits Eliot on the last day of his life to make a moral accounting. A post mortem Elvis visits the hospital bed of Colonel Tom Parker who devises A Presley Passion two weeks before the Colonel's own demise.

Walt Whitman's Drum-Taps Poetry & Alexander Gardner's Gettysburg Photos. Henry James came to believe the Drum-Taps poetry among the most haunting of the world's poetry. This is the third of six volumes in the Walt Whitman's Whisper series. Each volume is an extended excerpt from the two-thousand page compendium of the life and poetry of Walt Whitman, "Whitman's Code: A New Bible".

The first in a series of commentaries on the major poetry of Walt Whitman. The book specifically cites Heidegger's Sein und Zeit in its title for the ontological concerns that both thinkers share.

M.C. Gardner's Whitman & Gardner's Witness to War is a blending of word and image from a poet and photographer whose work was precipitated out of the American Civil War. The book is 379 pages long. It contains all of the Drum-Taps & Sequel poems with a special analysis of "When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom'd" and its relationship and influence on T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land". Also featured are Alexander Gardner's photo-plates of the battles of Antietam & Gettysburg and his Lincoln Portraits and his photographs of the execution of the assassination conspirators.

Pursuing historical and textural hints, Gardner investigates the influence of Whitman's "Sex Poems" and erotic sensibility on the imagination of Bram Stoker and his signature creation, Count Dracula.