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.