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mods: The broken tower a life of Hart Crane Mariani, Paul L creator author text bibliography biography Biography Biographies Biographies. Biographies. nyu 1999 1st ed. monographic eng print 492 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm "Few poets have lived as extraordinary and fascinating a life as Hart Crane, the American poet who made his meteoric rise in the late 1920s and then as suddenly flamed out, killing himself at the age of thirty-two and thus turning his life and poetry into the stuff of myth. A midwesterner who came to New York to remake not only the face of the city but also American poetry, this young visionary in the tradition of Whitman and Rimbaud insisted on walking always on the edge. Part of the New York gay scene of his time, Crane also played a central part in the contemporary avant-garde New York literary world, along with Cummings, Moore, Toomer, and Williams. Most of all, he gave us a singular poetry, capped by The Bridge (his extraordinary epic celebrating the fabled Brooklyn Bridge), as well as a splendid, polyphonic poetic cadence that has never been duplicated." "The first biography of Crane to appear in thirty years, The Brown Tower includes major new discoveries about Crane's life that have surfaced since the 1960s, many culled from previously suppressed letters and other manuscripts, as well as new photographs."--Jacket. chapter 1. Starting out -- chapter 2. Shuttlecock -- chapter 3. About my father's business -- chapter 4. Breakthrough -- chapter 5. Higher consciousness -- chapter 6. White buildings -- chapter 7. In the shadow of the bridge -- chapter 8. Hawk's far stemming view -- chapter 9. Clenched beaks coughing for the surge again! -- chapter 10. Aftermath -- chapter 11. Pinkpoodle paradise -- chapter 12. Last strands -- chapter 13. Down and out in New York -- chapter 14. Death's adjustments -- chapter 15. Viva Mexico! -- chapter 16. Broken tower. Paul Mariani. Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-462) and index. British Library not li…