The Broken Tower: A Life of Hart Crane

The Broken Tower: A Life of Hart Crane
ISBN-10
0393320413
ISBN-13
9780393320411
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
512
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Author
Paul Mariani

Description

The award-winning author of Lost Puritan and A New World Naked presents a close-up look at the turbulent and tragically short life of American poet Hart Crane, from his youth, to his turbulent life amid the New York gay scene, to his suicide at the age of thirty-two. Reprint.

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