Hart Crane's "The Hurricane"

Continuing in our National Poetry Month series presenting poems found in Lewis Untermeyer's between-the-wars anthology Modern American Poetry,  here's Hart Crane's "The Hurricane."  Crane has chosen here his own idiosyncratic poetic diction, half Anglo-Saxon epithets and alliteration, half Marlowvian bombast in order to churn up this attractive piece of word music describing a storm. To remember this poem and poet I peformed it with a rock quintet combo. The Parlando Project takes various words (mostly literary poetry) and combines them with original music in differing styles. We've done over 900 of these combinations, and you can hear any of them and read about our encounters with the words at our blog and archives located at frankhudson.org