yawp

• “The concert explores the "yawp" - and its implications for the "primitive and direct poetics" that Coleman argues is distinctly American.”

  Bostonist

• “It thus becomes an inarticulate patriotic "yawp," of tremendous ear-splitting power.”

  Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870

• “Keating is even the kind of educator who can coax from a shy, stuttering student (Ethan Hawke) Walt Whitman's famed "barbaric yawp.”

  The Huffington Post: Caroline Hagood: The 'Dead Poets Society' Guide to Teaching

• “Then it dawned on Cassidy, too, and for a second all he did was yawp and utter a low, breathy “Shit!””

  Simon & Schuster: The Priest

• “As the poem required, we contained multitudes, contradicted ourselves, let forth a barbaric yawp, and much much more.”

  The Huffington Post: Steve Heilig: The Greatest Poetry Reading Ever?

• “For many, his "touch," like Walt Whitman's "yawp," still exemplifies an authentic American spirit.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Height and Depths of Expression

• “Rather than rescue the late work, this retrospective ends an iconic American career not with an exuberant yawp, but, sadly, with a whimper.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Height and Depths of Expression

• “In politics, it's the barbaric yawp of the new crop of Mama Grizzlies.”

  The Washington Post: 'Man up, Harry Reid!' Mama Grizzlies and our manliness recession

• “While the sonorous barbaric yawp of the Boomers echoed through the subsequent decades, it had little effect on their younger siblings like me.”

  The Huffington Post: Jeff DeGraff: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

• “ Then, there was a raucous yawp and whoop by all assembled who in agreement lifted their wings and appendages signaling their unwavering firmness and determination.”

  Fictionaut: Animal Park (Part II)

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