R. J. SweetJohn Unterecker's biography of #HartCrane, Voyager, captures the essence of a poet whose life was defined by relentless movement & sense of displacement; viz., driven by a desire to escape the turmoil of his Ohio upbringing. Akin to #Rimbaud -- his French counterpart & usually point of comparison -- emerges as a quintessentially nomadic figure. His nomadism ended in the 30s when he leapt into the Gulf -- a tragic and defining moment that mythologized his existence for over 70 years.
In this way, #HartCrane is the consummate passenger on a voyage: an individual whose transitory existence challenges conventional notions of belonging & rootedness (see Victor Turner's Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors, Ch. 6). Per Turner, Crane's efforts to evade social structure & occupy a liminal space is evident where he embeds his own sense of marginality. He constructs Passage as a text that deliberately disrupts the syntactic and semantic framework dictated by conventional grammar/logic.
When reading #HartCrane, his rootlessness is emblematic of his broader instability, a condition #PhilippeSoupault characterized as that of a "man torn apart" -- a victim of familial rupture, plagued by alcoholism, and driven to suicide. #HartCrane's [Passage] can be read as this textual embodiment of his perpetual state of errancy. The poem's final voyage -- ending in death by drowning -- mirrors the trajectory of a man who existed on the margins (in life & art), detached from home & identity.
Judy ElfferichAnd we have seen night lifted in thine arms.
Under thy shadow by the piers I waited;
Only in darkness is thy shadow clear.
Ooteoote-serie Poetry in motion, 454: Hart Crane, To Brooklyn Bridge
https://bit.ly/PIM454-crane
#poëzie #animatie #HartCrane #BrooklynBridge #brug #nacht
Under thy shadow by the piers I waited;
Only in darkness is thy shadow clear.
Ooteoote-serie Poetry in motion, 454: Hart Crane, To Brooklyn Bridge
https://bit.ly/PIM454-crane
#poëzie #animatie #HartCrane #BrooklynBridge #brug #nacht
UnderWing"There are no stars tonight
But those of memory.
Yet how much room for memory there is
In the loose girdle of soft rain."
#HartCrane (1926) #poetry #poem
Stanley Grill, ComposerSOUTHERN CROSS, a track from my new album THE BRIDGE, has been added to the "Winter Evenings Magic" playlist. But, you can still listen, even though it is definitely spring!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0M5eZh1QaTLSZGpJEKe82J?si=7b7e8cb800644495&nd=1
#classicalmusic
#contemporaryclassical
#symphony
#hartcrane
#viola
Today has been quite the day for THE BRIDGE. Earlier today it aired on Spokane Public Radio and just now I received an email from ASCAP letting me know that the "Van Winkle" movement from THE BRIDGE is on ASCAP's New Music Friday playlist.
Bobby D.This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we're cutting deeper than usual as we examine Lovecraft's acquaintance with the gay poet Hart Crane - and how that relationship has shaped our image of Lovecraft as a homophobe.
https://deepcuts.blog/2023/03/04/deeper-cut-hart-crane/
#blog #lovecraft #history #hartcrane #poetry #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #gay #lgbthistory #hplovecraft
It's a mid-week special on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein as we look at "The Ten-Cent Ivory Tower" (1946) by John Wilstach - a memoir of Lovecraft that ran in ESQUIRE and tells of an apocryphal meeting with Hart Crane. But did it really happen?
https://deepcuts.blog/2023/03/01/the-ten-cent-ivory-tower-1946-by-john-wilstach/
#lovecraft #lovecraftian #blog #HartCrane #weirdfiction #history
In the pipeline. Soon to be released, THE BRIDGE, a symphonic fantasy for viola & orchestra inspired by Hart Crane's epic poem of America. Followed by this week's recording of Rilke's DIE ERSTE ELEGIE for soprano & orchestra.
