Hart Crane's 1931 postcard from the Torreon de Los Remedios.(Critical essay)

From: ANQ | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: Acker, Paul | Copyright information

Previously in this issue of ANQ, Stephen Guy-Bray reports on a postcard sent from the poet Hart Crane (1899-1932) to Peter Blume and discusses its possible relevance to Crane's poem "The Broken Tower" (see figure 1). After examining the postcard at Columbia University, I suggested to Guy-Bray that I might include a reproduction of the postcard in this issue, transcribe its brief message, and report further on the subject of its cover photograph, labelled simply "Torreon de Los Reme...

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