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"Machinery will tend to lose its sensational glamour and appear in its true subsidiary order in human life as use and continual poetical allusion subdue its novelty. For, contrary to general prejudice, the wonderment experienced in watching nose dives is of less immediate creative promise to poetry than the familiar gesture of a motorist in the modest act of shifting gears."
'Hart Crane and the Machine Age'. 1933.
what mot of our writers
is clearly a misspelling, yet interestingly so
also, reasons for his suicide -- the suicide of a young man who was indubitably making his way in letters and achieving a unique place among his contemporaries -- may seem obscure; but to those who knew him
umm... (the queer bible)
RIP Hart Crane
posted by HearHere at 12:10 AM on June 1 [3 favorites]
is clearly a misspelling, yet interestingly so
also, reasons for his suicide -- the suicide of a young man who was indubitably making his way in letters and achieving a unique place among his contemporaries -- may seem obscure; but to those who knew him
umm... (the queer bible)
RIP Hart Crane
posted by HearHere at 12:10 AM on June 1 [3 favorites]
As someone who moved from Ohio to Brooklyn myself, I thought a lot about Hart Crane. I always thought of The Bridge as a sort of sequel to Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry."
My brain does best with narrative; abstract forms like poetry and dance are more elusive, but I suppose that's the point. The Bridge is a lot of abstract thinking about the most concrete structure you can imagine. The contrast is beautiful in itself.
Whitman's birthday was yesterday, the day this was posted. My birthday as well. Whitman, another queer boy in Brooklyn, survived into old age. Hart Crane slipped into the water (though not off his beloved bridge) far too young. I love them both so much. I love anyone escaping Ohio for better places. Find a bridge and cross it!
posted by rikschell at 4:39 AM on June 1 [3 favorites]
My brain does best with narrative; abstract forms like poetry and dance are more elusive, but I suppose that's the point. The Bridge is a lot of abstract thinking about the most concrete structure you can imagine. The contrast is beautiful in itself.
Whitman's birthday was yesterday, the day this was posted. My birthday as well. Whitman, another queer boy in Brooklyn, survived into old age. Hart Crane slipped into the water (though not off his beloved bridge) far too young. I love them both so much. I love anyone escaping Ohio for better places. Find a bridge and cross it!
posted by rikschell at 4:39 AM on June 1 [3 favorites]
Whitman's birthday was yesterday, the day this was posted. My birthday as well
happy birthday!
posted by HearHere at 5:03 AM on June 1 [1 favorite]
happy birthday!
posted by HearHere at 5:03 AM on June 1 [1 favorite]
Um, that’s some pretty nifty post title formatting. I’m really enjoying just looking it, and it’s stopping me from clicking on the link.
Love the format. Love the Floyd callback. But, being pretty poetry illiterate, I’m struggling with determining how it applies to poetry or the link, especially the OOA. Or, is it just meant to look cool, which it definitely does?
posted by Thorzdad at 5:54 AM on June 1 [1 favorite]
Love the format. Love the Floyd callback. But, being pretty poetry illiterate, I’m struggling with determining how it applies to poetry or the link, especially the OOA. Or, is it just meant to look cool, which it definitely does?
posted by Thorzdad at 5:54 AM on June 1 [1 favorite]
"And what about the staunch neighbor tabulations,
with all their zest for doom?"
from The Visible, the Untrue may be an apropos line from Crane here: the font recalls a tabulating machine.
being pretty poetry illiterate, I'm struggling with determining how it applies to poetry or the link
hopefully another link may help? if you're interested, the full book, which the top link just reviews, is available online. before you explore the work, i'll offer Crane's penultimate lines from the above:
"Yes, light.
And it is always always, always
the eternal rainbow
And it is always the day..."
posted by HearHere at 8:43 AM on June 1 [1 favorite]
with all their zest for doom?"
from The Visible, the Untrue may be an apropos line from Crane here: the font recalls a tabulating machine.
being pretty poetry illiterate, I'm struggling with determining how it applies to poetry or the link
hopefully another link may help? if you're interested, the full book, which the top link just reviews, is available online. before you explore the work, i'll offer Crane's penultimate lines from the above:
"Yes, light.
And it is always always, always
the eternal rainbow
And it is always the day..."
posted by HearHere at 8:43 AM on June 1 [1 favorite]
I’m really enjoying just looking it,
I did too at first in the confirmation email.
My brain does best with narrative;
that is a superb line for a good thesis and I agree 100%, thank you for saying it better than I could.
with determining how it applies to poetry or the link,
I defer to HearHere' excellent take quite right about the block letters and the Pink Floyd, to digress I liked how welcome and machine lined up, it was one of the central lines in the text about if poetry has somehow assimilated the machine, the new era of machinery into its poetry and I thought that song by Floyd hit the mark.
"Unless poetry can absorb the machine [remarked Mr. Crane], i.e., acclimatize it as naturally and casually as trees, cattle, galleons, castles and all other human associations of the past, then poetry has failed of its full contemporary function."
oddly I think of Marianetti and Pounds age of "Hectors splattering rim wheels"and how crane most beautifully addressed this in 'the bridge'
But
"As long as the poet is conscious of the machine as a monstrous or imposing phenomenon outside of himself, as long as he can gaze at it detachedly and hymn its sleek pistons and its thundering wheels and its high-flung parabolas, it continues to be a colossal eidolon set apart from living; but when the poet can absorb the machine, when it becomes a part of his life as winding rivers and blood-red sunsets and the cool inhalations" ok, the machine primarily in 1933 is alluded to symbolically of airplanes, automobiles, skyscrapers. but does the thesis still apply today with the vast array of computation and technology that would have seemed almost as magic to the average person in the 1933. or would it. furthermore, could a machine eventually write something as beautiful as The Bridge, and be able to reflect upon itself to convey societal integration or awareness of the machines of today.
posted by clavdivs at 2:29 PM on June 1 [2 favorites]
I did too at first in the confirmation email.
My brain does best with narrative;
that is a superb line for a good thesis and I agree 100%, thank you for saying it better than I could.
with determining how it applies to poetry or the link,
I defer to HearHere' excellent take quite right about the block letters and the Pink Floyd, to digress I liked how welcome and machine lined up, it was one of the central lines in the text about if poetry has somehow assimilated the machine, the new era of machinery into its poetry and I thought that song by Floyd hit the mark.
"Unless poetry can absorb the machine [remarked Mr. Crane], i.e., acclimatize it as naturally and casually as trees, cattle, galleons, castles and all other human associations of the past, then poetry has failed of its full contemporary function."
oddly I think of Marianetti and Pounds age of "Hectors splattering rim wheels"and how crane most beautifully addressed this in 'the bridge'
But
"As long as the poet is conscious of the machine as a monstrous or imposing phenomenon outside of himself, as long as he can gaze at it detachedly and hymn its sleek pistons and its thundering wheels and its high-flung parabolas, it continues to be a colossal eidolon set apart from living; but when the poet can absorb the machine, when it becomes a part of his life as winding rivers and blood-red sunsets and the cool inhalations" ok, the machine primarily in 1933 is alluded to symbolically of airplanes, automobiles, skyscrapers. but does the thesis still apply today with the vast array of computation and technology that would have seemed almost as magic to the average person in the 1933. or would it. furthermore, could a machine eventually write something as beautiful as The Bridge, and be able to reflect upon itself to convey societal integration or awareness of the machines of today.
posted by clavdivs at 2:29 PM on June 1 [2 favorites]
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