Sixty-eight short, numbered poems, unrhymed and stripped of ornament, in which riders come from the sea, little birds mock a man who thinks he can sing, and a seeker argues with a stern God. Crane’s lines are parables of pride, sin, desire and doubt, closer to Emily Dickinson and the Bible than to the verse of 1895.
A startling early landmark of American free verse by the author of The Red Badge of Courage. Download the free EPUB.