Crane, Hart

The Poems of Hart Crane

ISBN: 0871406500
New York, NY: Liveright, 1986. First Printing. Hardcover. A volume of poems by Hart Crane (1899-1932), the short-lived, high-impact American Modernist poet best known for collections like White Buildings (1926) and his major experimental long poem, The Bridge (1930). Crane was born in Ohio and attended high school in Cleveland before dropping out and heading to New York. One fact about Crane Your Devoted VP-of-Operations here at Third Mind Books has always found interesting is that The Bridge was cardinally intended as an uplifting counter to “The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot (1888-1965). This, because Crane — a mostly closeted, depressed homosexual, — did not particularly relish existence. On April 27, 1932 — approximately two years after The Bridge debuted — Crane drunkenly ended his life by jumping off a steamship into the Atlantic Ocean. Despite this dramatic and sorrowful denouement, The Poems of Heart Crane stands in testament to the poet’s supreme talent and deserving poetic legacy. From the collection of Laurence Goldstein (1943-2023), a renowned American author, poet, film critic, editor & academician here at the University of Michigan. Hardcover in unclipped dust-jacket: “First Edition,” as stated on copyright page; First Printing, as indicated by number sequence, thereon. In Very Fine condition with only minute-to-moderate shelf-wear, some light bumping & generally minute-to-mild rubbing to fine-edges & corners of front, back covers & spine-edge; otherwise, clean. Dust-jacket in generally strong Near Fine condition with only correspondent light shelf-wear, rubbing, some light bumping, & a few low visibility crease-indentations present along fine-edges & corners of front, back covers & spine-edge at varying locales; otherwise generally clean. Very Fine / Near Fine. [Item #8693]

Price: $30.00