Poems from the Greenberg Manuscripts

by Samuel Greenberg and Samuel Greenberg

"Who was Samuel Greenberg?" editor Garrett Caples asks: "The short answer is 'the dead, unknown poet Hart Crane plagiarized.'" In the winter of 1923, Crane was given some of Greenberg's notebooks and called him "a Rimbaud in embryo." Crane included many of Greenberg's lines, uncredited and slightly changed, in his own poetry. Poems from the Greenberg Manuscripts was edited by James Laughlin, who first published it in 1939. As well as Laughlin's original...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811228134
• ISBN13: 9780811228138
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.7"