110 COLUMBIA HEIGHTS
by Germaine Shames
In the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge, three extraordinary individuals, living and dead, probe the sprawling steel colossus in search of the American soul.
In the 1870s, Emily Warren Roebling, wife of the bridge’s paralyzed chief engineer, moved to 110 Columbia Heights to take over the day-to-day supervision and diplomacy needed to complete the project. A half century later, Jazz Age poet, Hart Crane, occupied...
In the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge, three extraordinary individuals, living and dead, probe the sprawling steel colossus in search of the American soul.
In the 1870s, Emily Warren Roebling, wife of the bridge’s paralyzed chief engineer, moved to 110 Columbia Heights to take over the day-to-day supervision and diplomacy needed to complete the project. A half century later, Jazz Age poet, Hart Crane, occupied this same apartment as he labored on his seminal poem, The Bridge. Peggy Baird Cowley, a free-spirited painter and Hart’s one heterosexual lover, often visited the poet there. In 110 COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, a comi-tragic marriage of fact and fantasy, their lives intersect as they grapple for a toehold in an age of frayed morals and accelerating flux.
Part love letter, part indictment, 110 COLUMBIA HEIGHTS plumbs the dark recesses and soaring heights of a country still struggling to live up to its own rhetoric, and whose future, now as then, hangs in the balance.
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