{"product_id":"adelaide-crapsey-cinquains-other-verse","title":"Adelaide Crapsey - Cinquains \u0026 Other Verse","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdelaide Crapsey - Cinquains \u0026amp; Other Verse\u003cbr\u003e\nPublic Domain Poets #6 | Publicdomainpoets.com\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Cinquains \u0026amp; Other Verse' contains a generous selection of Adelaide Crapsey's cinquains, and various other poems, originally published posthumously in 'Verse' (1915), with a preface by Jean Webster, and William Stanley Braithwaite. New edition designed, edited, and selected by Dick Whyte.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery day,\u003cbr\u003e\nEvery day,\u003cbr\u003e\nTell the hours\u003cbr\u003e\nBy their shadows,\u003cbr\u003e\nBy their shadows.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAdelaide Crapsey (1878-1914) was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and attended Vassar College, where she was class poet three years in a row. After graduating, Crapsey taught history \u0026amp; literature at Kemper Hall in Wisconsin, and then studied at the School of Archaeology in Rome.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI know\u003cbr\u003e\nNot these my hands\u003cbr\u003e\nAnd I think there was\u003cbr\u003e\nA woman like me once had hands\u003cbr\u003e\nLike these.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAround this time, she began writing 'free verse', drawing inspiration from the French 'vers libre', Japanese hokku and tanka, and the work of Yone Noguchi, among other things. This inspired Crapsey to develop an English-language 5-line poetic form called the 'cinquain', modeled in part on tanka, which led to some of her most memorable verses (written 1911-13).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eListen . . .\u003cbr\u003e\nWith faint dry sound,\u003cbr\u003e\nLike steps of passing ghosts,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees,\u003cbr\u003e\nAnd fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnfortunately, Crapsey's life was plagued with illness, and she died in 1914 at the age of 36. While leaving behind a single slim volume of poetry, Crapsey's terse, unrhymed poems would go on to inspire a number of poets central to the post-1913 'new verse' movement, including Marianne Moore, Lola Ridge, Yvor Winters, and Carl Sandburg (et al.).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese be\u003cbr\u003e\nThree silent things:\u003cbr\u003e\nThe falling snow . . . the hour\u003cbr\u003e\nBefore the dawn . . . the mouth of one\u003cbr\u003e\nJust dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublic Domain Press is dedicated to producing contemporary editions of out-of-print poets and poetry collections, particularly with regard to compressed and fragmented 'free verse' from the late-1800s and early-1900s. All poems start as facsimiles - to preserve the original fonts - which are then cleaned up, edited for consistency, and spaciously laid-out, adorned with borders, illustrations, and ornaments from the books and magazines they originally appeared in. These are not \"reprints\" of previously existing books, but newly crafted collection, lovingly edited from public domain material, for the serious poetry lover.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksWholesale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44225628209313,"sku":"9780473649241","price":31.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/29d6k2-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1713686870","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/adelaide-crapsey-cinquains-other-verse","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}