The Complete Poems of Hart Crane edited by Marc Simon

The Centennial Edition Edited by Marc Simon with an introduction by Harold Bloom "Crane's poetry has been a touchstone for me, and remains central to a fully imaginative understanding of American literature."―Harold Bloom This edition features a new introduction by Harold Bloom as a centenary tribute to the visionary of White Buildings (1926) and The Bridge (1930). Hart Crane, prodigiously gifted and tragically doom-eager, was the American peer of Shelley, Rimbaud, and Lorca. Born in Garrettsville, Ohio, on July 21, 1899, Crane died at sea on April 27, 1932, as an apparent suicide. A born poet, totally devoted to his art, Crane suffered his warring parents as well as long periods of hand-to-mouth existence. He suffered also from his honesty as a homosexual poet and lover during a period in American life unsympathetic to his sexual orientation. Despite much critical misunderstanding and neglect, in his own time and in ours, Crane achieved a superb poetic style, idiosyncratic yet central