America’s forgotten poet

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:02:00 +0000

Hart Crane, who is famous for having jumped off the back of a boat at age 32 after having been lauded as one of America’s greatest poets, is most often associated with New York. This makes sense: Crane lived and wrote there, after all, and his best-known work, The Bridge, is an epic about the Brooklyn Bridge. It is no surprise that the go-to biography of Crane, Paul Mariani’s The Broken Tower (the basis of last year's motion picture starring James Franco), starts this way: “There was only one city for Hart Crane, and that was New York.”

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America’s forgotten poet