The Bridge and White Buildings (Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry)

Name: The Bridge and White Buildings (Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry)
Brand: Dover Publications
SKU: SPTM-9780486855370
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Table of Contents:
THE BRIDGE
Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge
I. Ave Maria
II. Powhatan's Daughter
1. The Harbor Dawn
2. Van Winkle
3. The River
4. The Dance
5. Indiana
III. Cutty Sark
IV. Cape Hatteras
V. Three Songs
1. Southern Cross
2. National Winter Garden
3. Virginia
VI. Quaker Hill
VII. The Tunnel
VIII. Atlantis

WHITE BUILDINGS
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

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.