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Caresse published a boxed set of Harry's work titled Collected poems of Harry Crosby containing Chariot of the Sun with D. H. Lawrence's intro, Transit of Venus with T. S. Eliot's intro, Sleeping Together with Stuart Gilbert's intro and Torchbearer in 1931.
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The first of these, Tales Told of Shem and Shaun was published by Harry and Caresse Crosby's publishing house Black Sun Press.
" Harry and Caresse published the Paris edition of Hemingway's The Torrents of Spring.
On the evening of December 7, Crosby's friend Hart Crane threw a party to celebrate his completion after seven years of his poem, The Bridge, which was to be published by the Black Sun Press, and to bid Harry and Caresse bon voyage, since they were due to sail back to France the next week.
In 1931, Caresse also published Torchbearer, a collection of his poetry with an afterward by Ezra Pound, and Aphrodite in Flight, a seventy-five paragraph-long prose-poem and how-to manual for lovers that compared making love to a woman to flying planes.
Caresse Crosby edited and published Harry's diaries and papers.
Cover of Tales of Shem and Shaun by James Joyce published by Caresse Crosby and the Black Sun Press
Caresse and Harry published her first book, Crosses of Gold, in late 1924.
When he returned to the U. S. in 1940, he confessed to Caresse his lack of success in getting his work published.
In 1953, Caresse wrote and published her autobiography, The Passionate Years.
Cover of Tales of Shem and Shaun by James Joyce published by Caresse Crosby and Harry Crosby, owners and publishers of the Black Sun Press.
One of their first two books was a volume of poetry by Caresse, Crosses of Gold, printed by Léon Pichon and published in 1925.
That evening Crosby's friend Hart Crane threw a party to celebrate his completion after seven years of his poem, The Bridge, which was to be published by the Black Sun Press, and to bid Harry and Caresse bon voyage, since they were due to sail back to France the next week.
Caresse published two volumes of Harry Crosby's poetry, Chariot of the Sun and Transit of Venus.
A near-fine copy of the first English-language edition of Max Ernst's and Paul Eluard's book, Misfortunes of the Immortals, which Caresse published in 1943, was offered for sale in 2010 by Derringer Books for £ ( about € or $).
Caresse and Harry's
The Mauretania before 1923On the evening of the play, December 10, 1929, Caresse, Harry's mother Henrietta Grew, and Hart Crane met for dinner before the play, but Harry was a no-show.
Harry's wedding ring was found crushed on the floor, not on his finger, where he always promised Caresse it would remain.
In her autobiography, Caresse minimized Harry's affair with Josephine, eliminating a number of references to her.
In 1928, Harry and Caresse changed the name of the press to the Black Sun Press in keeping with Harry's fascination with the symbolism of the sun.
Its frontleaf bore their names in the form of a gold cross with the ' r ' in Caresse intersecting the first ' r ' in Harry's name.
In 1928, Harry and Caresse changed the name of the press to the Black Sun Press in keeping with Harry's fascination with the symbolism of the sun.
Caresse and work
After Harry Crosby's suicide, Caresse continued the work of the Black Sun Press.
Caresse continued her work to establish a world citizen's center in Delphi, Greece, where in 1942 she bought a small house that overlooked the Grove of Apollo.
Caresse refused, insisting that a literary master would never alter his work to fix a printer's error.
Caresse and Harry
Harry Crosby and his wife Caresse would establish the Black Sun Press in Paris in 1927, publishing works by such future luminaries as D. H. Lawrence, Archibald MacLeish, James Joyce, Kay Boyle, Hart Crane, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Dorothy Parker and others.
In 1927 Polly took the name Caresse, and she and Harry founded the Black Sun Press.
At the end of 1924, Harry persuaded Polly to formally change her first name to Caresse, as he felt Polly was too prim and proper for his wife.
In 1923, shortly after their arrival in Paris, Caresse introduced Harry to her friend Constance Coolidge, also a Boston Brahmin, an American expatriate and French countess, with whom he immediately began an open sexual relationship.
In Morocco during one of their trips to North Africa, Harry and Caresse took a 13-year-old dancing girl named Zora to bed with them.
After Harry died in a suicide pact with one of his many lovers, Caresse Crosby continued publishing into the 1940s.
The party went on until nearly dawn, and Harry and Caresse made plans to see Crane again on December 10 to see the popular Broadway play Berkeley Square before they left for Europe.
On December 9 Josephine, who instead of returning to Boston had stayed with one of her bridesmaids in New York, sent a 36-line poem to Harry Crosby, who was staying with Caresse at the Savoy-Plaza Hotel.
In 2004, Fine Line Features optioned Andrea Berloff's first screenplay " Harry & Caresse.
The book contains first-hand observations of James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Valery Larbaud, Thornton Wilder, André Gide, Leon-Paul Fargue, George Antheil, Robert McAlmon, Gertrude Stein, Stephen Benet, Aleister Crowley, Harry Crosby, Caresse Crosby, John Quinn, Berenice Abbott, Man Ray, and many others.
But behind closed doors, Harry applied a double standard, quarreling violently with Caresse about her affairs.
In 1931, two years after Harry Crosby's suicide, the end of his affair with Caresse Crosby left Cartier-Bresson broken-hearted and he escaped to Côte d ' Ivoire within French colonial Africa.
After Harry died in a suicide pact with one of his many lovers, Caresse Crosby continued publishing until 1936, when she left Europe for the United States.
Harry left Caresse US $ 100, 000 ( about $ today ) in his will, along with generous bequests to Josephine, Constance, and others.
After Harry Crosby's suicide, Caresse dedicated herself to the Black Sun Press.
She signed her name when she visited Harry and Caresse along with an Austrian big game hunter she was dating.
In 2004, Fine Line Features optioned Andrea Berloff's first screenplay Harry & Caresse.
Caresse and Crosby
In that year, Dalí and Gala also attended a masquerade party in New York, hosted for them by heiress Caresse Crosby.
Embracing the open sexuality offered by Crosby and his wife Caresse, Henri Cartier-Bresson fell into an intense sexual relationship with her that lasted until 1931.
A Bibliography of the Black Sun Press ... With an introduction by Caresse Crosby.
* Caresse Crosby Papers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale Special Collections Research Center
Caresse Crosby ( April 20, 1891 – January 26, 1970 ), born Mary Phelps Jacob ( nicknamed " Polly " by her parents ), was an American patron of the arts, poet, publisher, and peace activist.
Embracing the open sexuality offered by Crosby and his wife Caresse, Cartier-Bresson fell into an intense sexual relationship with her.
But two days later she had delivered a 36-line poem to Crosby who was staying with Caresse at the Savoy-Plaza Hotel.
He thought then of Caresse Crosby.
In her journal, Nin wrote, " Harvey Breit, Robert Duncan, George Barker, Caresse Crosby, all of us concentrating our skills in a tour de force, supplying the old man with such an abundance of perverse felicities, that now he begged for more.
By 1941, having divorced Bert, Caresse moved to live in Washington D. C. full-time where she owned a home at 2008 Q Street NW from 1937 to 1950, and she opened the Caresse Crosby Modern Art Gallery, what was then the city's only modern art gallery, at 1606 Twentieth Street, near Dupont Circle.
* " Caresse Crosby, Infield.
* Caresse Crosby Papers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale Special Collections Research Center
* Caresse Crosby from " Always Yes, Caresse ," 1962 ( Video )
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