The Black Riders and Other Lines (Version 2)


Lu par Chuck Williamson

(3.9 stars; 4 reviews)

Written in a purgative frenzy of pure imagination (“They came, and I wrote them, that’s all”), Stephen Crane’s The Black Riders and Other Lines is a strange, enigmatic, and sparsely-written collection of free verse that bristles with Old Testament fury, seethes with cosmic cynicism, and touches on themes of lost faith and existential terror.
- Summary by ChuckW (0 hr 41 min)

Chapitres

Section 1 (I-XVII) 8:36 Lu par Chuck Williamson
Section 2 (XVIII-XXXIV) 10:37 Lu par Chuck Williamson
Section 3 (XXXV-LI) 10:30 Lu par Chuck Williamson
Section 4 (LII-LXVIII) 11:26 Lu par Chuck Williamson

Critiques

very good reading


(3.5 stars)

I really like the voice and tone of the reader in this collection of Stephen Crane's poetry: slightly-angsty, indignant, a quiet rage brewing underneath a defiant, slow delivery -- oddly appropriate for these poems.