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Table of Contents: Legend Black Tambourine Emblems of Conduct My Grandmother's Love Letters Sunday Morning Apples Praise for an Urn Garden Abstract Stark Major Chaplinesque Pastorale In Shadow The Fernery North Labrador Repose of Rivers Paraphrase Possessions Lachrymae Christi Passage The Wine Menagerie Recitative For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen At Melville's Tomb Voyages, I, II, III, IV, V, VI Brief Description: "A key figure in American modernist poetry, Hart Crane (1899-1932) was a visionary American poet known for his rich, imagistic language and bold exploration of themes such as identity, spirituality, and human connection. His celebrated work, The Bridge, is an epic meditation on America, using the Brooklyn Bridge metaphorically-connecting America's past with its industrialized future of innovation, progress, and hope within the American Dream. In White Buildings, his lyrical intensity is revealed in poems exploring the complexities of love, loss, and artistic ambition, along with his openness to queer themes. His experimental approach to poetry has solidified his place as a significant voice in twentieth-century poetry. Despite his tragically short life, Crane's works continue to inspire readers and writers alike, offering profound insights into the struggles and aspirations of the human spirit"-- Provided by publisher Biographical Note: Harold Hart Crane (1899-1932) was an American poet who was a key figure in the modernist movement. His work was known for its complexity and stylization. Publisher Marketing: "Hart Crane may well remain as the greatest poet produced by America since Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. . . . His imaginative intensity, his flashes of imagery, his Elizabethan grandeur, make his rich blank verse eclipse most of the poetry written in English since Yeats." --Henri Peyre, New York Times Book Review A key figure in American modernist poetry, Hart Crane (1899-1932) was a visionary poet known for his rich, imagistic language and bold exploration of themes such as identity, spirituality, and human connection. His celebrated work, The Bridge, is an epic meditation on America, using the Brooklyn Bridge metaphorically--connecting America's past with its industrialized future of innovation, progress, and hope within the American Dream. In White Buildings, his lyrical intensity is revealed in poems exploring the complexities of love, loss, and artistic ambition, along with his openness to queer themes. His experimental approach to poetry has solidified his place as a significant voice in twentieth-century poetry. Despite his tragically short life, Crane's works continue to inspire readers and writers alike, offering profound insights into the struggles and aspirations of the human spirit. |
Author: Crane, Hart
Publisher: Dover Publications
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: 2025-12-16
BISAC: Poetry|American|Poetry|Subjects & Themes|Places|Poetry|LGBTQ+
Subjects: POETRY / American / General|POETRY / General|Poetry
Weight: 0.25 lbs
ISBN: 9780486855370
ASIN: -
SKU: SP-9780486855370
The Bridge and White Buildings
$19.00