“A Crane Takes Flight” aims to take a fresh look at Ohio native Hart Crane, a renowned American poet. Evolution Theatre Company’s world premiere of Mark Phillips Schwamberger’s play will open Sept. 8 ...

Occasioned by the centennial of Crane’s birth , the publication of The Broken Tower: The Life of Hart Crane, by Paul Mariani & the re-publication of The Complete Poems of Hart Crane, edited by Marc ...

Crane's strenuous optimism about America, his barely coded celebrations of homoerotic desire and his bejeweled, dense, late Romantic language made him perhaps the most fiercely cherished of modernists ...

Hart Crane (1899–1932) is as good an example of recent forgetfulness as we have — a major figure before his suicide at age 32. Although he still has admirers, his dense poetry in the high modern style ...

The escape from irony. Geographies -- Poetry and the actual -- Chaplinesque -- "For the marriage of Faustus and Helen" -- The impenitent song -- "Voyages" -- The visionary lyric -- The bridge: a grace ...

HART CRANE: THE LIFE OF AN AMERICAN POET—Philip Horton—Norton ($3). Few modern readers could recall even the name of any 18th Century U. S. poet. Of the 19th Century, only three names are still ...