Ladders to the Sun: Poems of Harry Crosby with Extracts from His Diaries: Poems by Harry Crosby with Extracts from His Diaries - Softcover

Crosby, Harry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0957479328 ISBN 13: 9780957479326

Verlag: Soul Bay Press, 2017

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Reseña del editor:

'Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.' - T.S. Eliot in his preface to Harry Crosby's collection of poems Transit of Venus . Harry Crosby has been put forward as the embodiment of 'The Lost Generation' of American writers who travelled to Europe in the 1920s and appeared to question the American way of life. His poetry stemmed from his love of European poets such as Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Lautreamont and has more to do with symbolism, surrealism and futurism than more traditional forms of poetry. A complicated and passionate poet he deserves to be read. It may only be the tragic circumstances of his death, a doomed love and a presumed double suicide, that may have stopped Crosby becoming a major literary figure. This second edition of Harry Crosby's poetry now includes more poems and also extracts from his diaries from 1922 to his untimely death in 1929.

Biografía del autor:

Harry Crosby was a poet. He was born into a wealthy American family, had a privileged upbringing and attended Harvard University. However during the First World War he volunteered as an ambulance driver and his experiences in France, including his ambulance being destroyed by a shell, affected him deeply. He gave up his expected career in banking and instead moved to Paris with his wife, where he mixed with the artistic set that includes writers such as James Joyce, D H Lawrence and Hart Crane. During this period Crosby travelled widely and started to have his poetry published. In 1927 he and his wife founded Black Sun Press, through which he published his own work as well those of the literary circle he now moved in. However on the 10 December 1929, then aged 30, he was found dead in a hotel room with his lover, both dead from gunshot wounds. It was a presumed double suicide; although this is still debated. The last words written in Crosby's notebook before he died were, 'One is not in love unless one desires to die with one's beloved. There is only one happiness it is to love and be loved.'

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• Verlag: Soul Bay Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0957479328
• ISBN 13: 9780957479326
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 196
• Herausgeber: Jenkins Thomas Peter