ashes and sparks

ashes and sparks

The argosy of your error

On the Mexican Navy, Hart Crane, and the poetry of New York Harbor

Paul Franz
May 26, 2025
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How could I resist? How could the crash of a Mexican Navy tall ship into Brooklyn Bridge last week help calling to mind the work of Hart Crane? (OK, OK, I was probably influenced by the fact that I have been rereading him in preparation for an

Interintellect
reading group, part 2 of which meets tomorrow—get your tickets here).1

It has all the elements: the fatal plun…

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