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by: Hart Crane
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 809
EAN: 9780871402257
ISBN: 0871402254
Label: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Manufacturer: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 76
Publication Date: 1992-07
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Sales Rank: 192830
Studio: Liveright Publishing Corporation
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Rating:  - A Visionary American Poem
I have been reading the Library of America's newly-published edition of Hart Crane's (1899- 1932) complete poems. The LOA edition includes as well over 400 of Crane's letters to his family, friends, and associates. The LOA compilation of Hart Crane's writings made me want to turn again, specifically to his masterpiece, "The Bridge". I have owned the paperback edition of "The Bridge", reviewed here, for many years. It has the advantage over the LOA edition in being less bulky and in including two ... Read More
Rating:  - not easy poetry, but worth the struggle
I'd suggest reading Samuel R. Delany's essay (in Longer Views) and accidentally catching a program on PBS about Hart Crane after your first read of it. It helped me tremendously.
An epic poem which explores America, "modern" poetic imagery (the Brooklyn bridge as opposed to a tree), Columbus, Whitman, Poe, Pocahontas, and sea imagery. It also contains very bold (for the pre-Stonewall era) allusions to homosexuality, in the typical method of the period which is rooted in gender ... Read More
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