Hart Crane, born on this day in 1899. Read his work at Poets.org.
Hart Crane’s Hands by Walker Evans (1929-30)
Born on July 21, 1899, in Garrettsville, Ohio, Harold Hart Crane was a highly anxious and volatile child…
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Susan Howe on the Telepathy of Archives:
“In research libraries and collections, we may capture the portrait of history in so-called insignificant visual and verbal textualities and textiles. In material details. In twill fabrics, bead-work pieces, pricked patterns, tiny spangles, sharp toothed stencil-wheels; in quotations, thought-fragments, inscriptions, endangered phonemes, even soils and stains.”
“Place my bones next to the submerged bones of Hart Crane…” –Tennessee Williams discusses his poetic influences.
Happy B-day, T.W..