The complete poems of Hart Crane | 
#NationalPoetryMonth Day 16: As Brian Reed writes in his essay on Crane's great poem, “Voyages” is a 20th-century masterpiece not because its author is queer but because lauding queer love requires a reckless openness to and acceptance of emotions so intense, so fiery, that they burn away your past self. No going back afterward; no underbrush left to hide in. You must consign yourself to the “harbor of the phoenix‘ breast,” as Crane puts it👇
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Link to Voyages II:
https://poets.org/poem/voyages-ii
For readers who want the full experience of one of the greatest love poems of all time that is still years ahead in terms of what he does with language:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43261/voyages-56d221f94d612 (edited) 2y