Hart Crane

Hart Crane (1899–1932) was born in Garrettsville, Ohio, and grew up largely in Cleveland. He moved to New York in his early twenties and published poems in the little magazines of the day.

His first book, White Buildings, appeared in 1926 with a foreword by Allen Tate; his epic sequence The Bridge followed in 1930. Crane died at sea in 1932, aged thirty-two, after leaping from a steamer returning from Mexico.

The poems here are those of White Buildings (Boni & Liveright, 1926), taken from the Project Gutenberg edition.