Out of panic, self-reliance Oct 13, 2008
EMERSON AND ECONOMICS. Published: October 13, 2008. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
Author, author Jul 22, 2008
I bet someone (maybe Hart Crane in his "Voyages" mode) could have written a poet's impression. . (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Cantata Singers pay tribute to Hart Crane's vision May 13, 2008
Weill, however, was relegated to second billing; the major event was the local premiere of "High Bridge: A Choral Symphony after Poems of Hart Crane," by Charles Fussell, a composer with deep Boston roots. Fussell's involvement with Crane's poetry goes back to the 1960s, and the depth of his understanding is evident throughout this sprawling and highly impressive work. (Boston Globe)
Ron Rosenbaum on the Joy of Slo-Mo Apr 11, 2008
Even awkwardness looks balletic in slow motionor, at least, "Chaplinesque." (Do you know the Hart Crane poem by that name, by the way. Check it out. (Slate)
Garrison Keillor on 'Against Happiness' Mar 15, 2008
Kafka, Hart Crane, Jackson Pollock, Tennessee Williams, Mark Rothko, melancholics all, so why shouldn't we accept our own bleakness and take long walks in the winter woods and look at the gnarled limbs of trees and struggle with the inscrutable and accept the beauty of permanent turmoil. It's a good old-fashioned broadside against American optimism - the mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness, the superior man exults in his gloom. (International Herald Tribune)
Dan Chiasson on 'The Best American Erotic Poems' Mar 15, 2008
" Contemporary poets have written excellent erotic poems, and some of them are included here: "I See a Man," by Carl Phillips; "The Couple," by Mark Strand; "The Encounter," by Louise Gl?ck. But you would learn more about eros, and more about poetry, if you read any single volume by any one of these poets, or by James Schuyler or Paul Muldoon; single poems in anthologies (Lehman allows only one poem per author, with the baffling exceptions being Emily Dickinson and Olena Kalytiak Davis) cannot... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Homophobia unfounded Nov 27, 2007
Hart Crane would have been proud. To To GAP, can't come up with a valid argument against his post so you resort to name calling and tired stereotypes, may your deity have pity on your soul for the hatred you cannot, or do not want to control. (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
Ambassadors of decay; Homer art exhibit takes it outdoors Aug 27, 2007
"My favorite Hart Crane poem is 'At Melville's Tomb,' " Armstrong says -- and we wish he hadn't ... READ Hart Crane's poem "At Melville's Tomb". (Anchorage Daily News)
Book Review: The Joy of Drinking May 8, 2007
Mentioned are Johnson and Boswell, John Donne, Byron, Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Eugene O'Neill, Edmund Wilson, Thomas Wolfe, Hart Crane, Malcolm Lowry, Robert Lowell, John O'Hara, Kingsley Amis. And Dylan Thomas, who defined an alcoholic as "someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.". (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Click for Full Story Apr 27, 2007
In 1932, American poet Hart Crane, 32, drowned after jumping from a steamer into the Gulf of Mexico while en route to New York. In 1947, it was "Babe Ruth Day" at Yankee Stadium as baseball fans, not just in New York, but across the country as well, honored the ailing star. (KWTX.com, TX)
Derek Walcott's poetry Apr 7, 2007
Can we imagine Hart Crane without the Caribbean or Elizabeth Bishop without Rio. Derek Walcott has crossed so many borders, his poems read like a much-thumbed Baedeker. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Looking Across the Pages Feb 3, 2007
Includes the works of noted authors such as Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Dubois, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, e. e. cummings, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, and Langston Hughes. Specifically regarding fiction, writers of the early 20th century began to feel that the traditional literary form was condescending to the reader, as well as... (Suite101.com)
Review: Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Hart Crane Jan 27, 2007
Hart Crane Complete Poems and Selected Letters ... Before Hart Crane's leap into the Caribbean that fatal April noon in 1932, he folded his jacket over the ship's rail with impeccable manners. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
