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JAMES FRANCO

Hart Crane's Tomb


The guy that could fuck sailors
And throw a punch,
 
And whose life was so bound up
In his poetry that when he said to the Brooklyn Bridge

“A bedlamite speeds to thy parapets,
Tilting there momently, shrill shirt ballooning,”

He meant himself.
A circle on the surface of the ocean,

For a second,
And then the bottom of the sea.

 
 
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"Hart Crane's Tomb" by James Franco copyright (c) 2014 by Whose Dog R U Productions. From Directing Herbert White and used by permission of Graywolf Press. www.graywolfpress.org.

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James Franco is an actor, director, writer, and visual artist. His first full-length book of poetry, Directing Herbert White, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in April 2014.












Photo credit: Anna Kooris

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