An episode from 5/3/21: Tonight, I read a letter Hart Crane sent to his father in January of 1924. Outside of van Gogh's letters, I don't know of a better attempt by an artist to explain his vocation to someone who will never understand it. You can find the letter in O My Land, My Friends: The Selected Letters of Hart Crane.

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