{"product_id":"9781931082990","title":"Complete Poems and Selected Letters","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo American poet has so swiftly and decisively transformed the course of poetry as Hart Crane. In his haunted, brief life, Crane fashioned a distinctively modern idiom that fused the ornate rhetoric of the Elizabethans, the ecstatic enigmas of Rimbaud, and the prophetic utterances and cosmic sympathy of Whitman, in a quest for wholeness and healing in what he called “the broken world.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite Buildings\u003c\/i\u003e, perhaps the greatest debut volume in American poetry since \u003ci\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/i\u003e, is but an exquisite prelude to Crane’s masterpiece \u003ci\u003eThe Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e, his magnificent evocation of America from Columbus to the Jazz Age that countered the pessimism of Eliot’s \u003ci\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/i\u003e and became a crucial influence on poets whose impact continues to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition is the largest collection of Crane’s writings ever published. Gathered here are the complete poems and published prose, along with a generous selection of Crane’s letters, several of which have never before been published. In his letters Crane elucidates his aims as an artist and provides fascinating glosses on his poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis voluminous correspondence also offers an intriguing glimpse into his complicated personality, as well as his tempestuous relationships with family, lovers, and writers such as Allen Tate, Waldo Frank, Yvor Winters, Jean Toomer, Marianne Moore, E. E. Cummings, William Carlos Williams, and Katherine Anne Porter. Several letters included here are published for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis landmark 850-page volume features a detailed and freshly-researched chronology of Crane’s life as well as extensive explanatory notes, and over fifty biographical sketches of Crane’s correspondents.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057344397552,"sku":"9781931082990","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781931082990_p0.jpg?v=1763638562","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781931082990","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}