“Don't be disturbed if you don't know much what prosody is. Hardly anyone does.”
About Adelaide Crapsey
9 September 1878–8 October 1914
In the autumn of 1914, as the Great War began tearing Europe apart, a young American poet lay dying in a sanatorium in Saranac Lake, New York. Adelaide Crapsey was only thirty-six years old, and though she had published little during her lifetime, she had invented a new poetic form that would outlive her by…