Kramer's Annotated Edition of Hart Crane's "The Bridge" is Published

"Hart Crane's The Bridge is generally agreed to be one of the great long poems of the early twentieth-century, but its obscure allusions and habitual double entendres have made it a difficult poem to digest. Lawrence Kramer’s excellent annotated edition, produced with the help of a devoted group of graduate students, thus fills what is a real lacuna. Not only are Kramer’s annotations deeply learned and precise; they also display great tact and common sense, refusing to overwhelm us with data or tangential matter. No student of Hart Crane—indeed no lover of Modernist poetry—will want to be without this necessary edition of The Bridge."

—Marjorie Perloff, Professor Emerita, Stanford University