Publisher, poet, and writer Harry Crosby (bon vivant) wrote this featured poem, In Search of the Young Wizard, in the year of his death, 1929. From a wealthy American family, Crosby became disillusioned with his privileged Bostonian life after his experience serving in World War I. He moved to Paris in the 1920s and was in the crucible of experimental artistic life, associating with the Surrealists and notable authors. Crosby founded Black Sun Press with his wife Caresse Crosby (formerly known as Mrs. Richard Peabody or Mary Phelps Jacob or Polly) where they published struggling and innovative authors including James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Crosby lived a wildly romantic and turbulent life, loving many women, breaking social boundaries and hungering after a lost portion of his soul; hungering for the unattainable. He ended his life at the age of 31 in a scandalous suicide pact.
Text by guest contributor John Smith
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