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Bridging wastelands
Scott, A.O. | July 21, 1997 issue

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This article appraises the book "O My Land, My Friends: The Selected Letters of Hart Crane," edited by Langdon Hammer and Brom Weber. The young man was Harold Hart Crane, only child of a local candy tycoon. As Hart Crane he was to become, like Isadora Duncan, one of the emblematic figures of twentieth-century culture. When, a decade later, he leaped from the deck of the S.S. Orizaba en route from Mexico to New York, he became, again like Duncan, one of its martyrs. In Crane's ecstatic appreciation of Duncan, and in his sense that this appreciation was a secret and exalted thing beyond the grasp of the respectable middle class, one can see traces of the complex intertwinings of gay culture and artistic Modernism.

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O My Land, My Friends (Book); WEBER, Brom; HAMMER, Langdon; MODERNISM (Christian theology); SOCIAL classes; BOOKS & reading
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