Hart Crane (1899-1932) is one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century. His poetry, marked both by the intensity and the brevity (only got to publish two books: White Buildings in 1925, and The Bridge, 1930), as well as the difficulty and the secrecy of his diction, has been located in the tradition inaugurated Walt Whitman, Crane who is today considered as one of its principal heirs. Through an opaque and musical writing, he aspired above all to create an American epic poetry with modern language. For the critic Waldo Frank, in the bridge which the author was a single poem Crane managed to find the unifying principle yo poet with the surrounding reality and tradition. Despite all its difficulties and initial rejection that this work arose, "Hart Crane ', write the translators of this volume has ended up being a turning point in modern poetry."
This version of Hart Crane Bridge has been performed within the Literary Translation Workshop of the University of La Laguna, which since its inception in 1995 has specialized in the translation of works defined by their difficulty or complexity.