Bridge: A Poem (Revised) (Revised) by Hart Crane

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Bridge: A Poem (Revised) (Revised) by Hart CraneBegun in 1923 and published 1930, The Bridge is Crane's major work. "Very roughly," he wrote a friend, "it concerns a mystical synthesis of 'America' . . . The initial impulses of 'our people' will have to be gathered up toward the climax of the bridge, symbol of our constructive future, our unique identity." Hart Crane may well remain as the greatest poet produced by American since Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. . . . His imaginative intensity,

*Winner of the LAMBDA Literary Award for Best Lesbian Poetry

intimate book radically reconsiders the cost of memory

a community of poets

you idolize the diction of the powerful:

though he doesn’t simply unreel a litany of suffering—natural calamity

to face them

global arts collective

Whorls beyond

That in itself is astonishing

was the American peer of Shelley

for which we are already growing nostalgic

vital book of verse