Complete Poems and Selected Letters and Prose | 
pickI think you could call Crane a poet‘s poet. His work is steeped in metaphor and analogy, made more difficult to a modern day reader by the gap in eras. There is little here to grasp a casual reader. Yet there is an instantly recognizable power to his poems. Despite the lengths one must go to decipher what Crane is ‘saying‘, one can FEEL it all the same.
An undeniable talent who went with his best work still locked inside him….
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