EDITOR'S NOTE
AT the time of his death, Hart Crane had prepared for publication a volume to be called Key West: An Island Sheaf. This collection, with the poems as arranged by Crane, figures as Part Three of this volume. The Uncollected Poems were found in manuscript among the poet's papers, and were written for the most part in the last three or four years of his life. Some of them had no title. Many of them, it is clear, are incomplete and were so considered by the poet.
There exist a number of variora of certain passages of The Bridge, apart from the variations in the Paris edition which appeared a few months before the first New York issue; but the Editor has not judged that the publication of vanora would be advisable in this first collected edition. The text of The Bridge adhered to, is the final one chosen by the poet and published by Liveright, Inc.
The Editor is indebted principally to Mrs. Grace Hart Crane, the poet's mother, and to Mr. Samuel Loveman, for assistance in the preparation of this volume. His thanks are due also to Mr. Malcolm Cowley, Mr. Pat McGrath and Mr. Joseph Kling, former editor of The Pagan.
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