Visionary CompanyHart Crane and Modernist Periodicals

• Weds textual and literary-critical approaches to Hart Crane’s poetry and his avant-garde milieu, offering a fresh reading of transnational modernism
• Offers a vivid portrait of forgotten periodicals and their artistic communities, introducing a wealth of new archival material, including previously unknown work from Crane’s last poetic project
• Explores the periodical contexts in which modernist poetry fused material and aesthetic experimentation
• Theorises periodical publishing as poetic form and creative-critical artistic practices
• Explores Crane’s important and neglected influence on modern and contemporary poetry

This book examines the poetry of Hart Crane and his circle within transnational modernist periodical culture. It reappraises Crane’s poetry and reception and introduces several lost works by the poet, including critical prose, reviews and ‘Nopal’, a poem written in Mexico. Through its exploration of Crane’s close engagement with periodical culture, it provides a rich and detailed panorama of twentieth-century literary and artistic communities. In particular, this monograph offers a vivid portrait of forgotten periodicals and their artistic communities, examines the periodical contexts in which modernist poetry fused material and aesthetic experimentation and explores Crane’s important and neglected influence on modern and contemporary poetry.