The Bridge and White Buildings

“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 and LGBTQ+ literature, Hart Crane (1899–1932) was a visionary poet known for his rich, imagistic language and bold exploration of them...