The Broken Tower: A Life of Hart Crane
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The first biography of Crane to appear in thirty years, The Broken Tower reads with all the drama of a psychological novel and the inexorable force of a Greek tragedy.New York Times Book Review - Langdon Hammer...[T]he first biography of Crane to appear in 30 years....[Mariani's] aim isn't to moralize Crane's life but to retell it as "a great Greek tragedy" in Jazz Age dress....Mariani seems to have written it not in the library but in his study, with Crane's books and the main books about him open on the desk....[H]e tries...to be the comrade or "accomplice" [Crane's] poems seek. The results, for all their staginess, are helpful readings of famously difficult texts.
Prolegomenon11 PART I 1: Starting Out19 2: Shuttlecock43 3: About My Father's Business57 4: Breakthrough77 5: The Higher Consciousness95 PART II 6: White Buildings121 7: In the Shadow of the Bridge148 8: The Hawk's Far Stemming View178 9: Clenched Beaks Coughing for the Surge Again!216 PART III 10: Aftermath251 11: Pinkpoodle Paradise287 12: Last Strands317 PART IV 13: Down and Out in New York347 14: Death's Adjustments363 15: Viva Mexico!381 16: The Broken Tower399 Coda422 Notes429 Acknowledgments463 Photograph Credits467 Index469
