The Black Riders and Other Lines (Version 2)
Stephen Crane
Read by Chuck Williamson
Written in a purgative frenzy of pure imagination (“They came, and I wrote them, that’s all”), Stephen Crane’s The Black Riders and Other Lines is a strange, enigmatic, and sparsely-written collection of free verse that bristles with Old Testament fury, seethes with cosmic cynicism, and touches on themes of lost faith and existential terror.
- Summary by ChuckW (0 hr 41 min)
Chapters
| Section 1 (I-XVII) | 8:36 | Read by Chuck Williamson |
| Section 2 (XVIII-XXXIV) | 10:37 | Read by Chuck Williamson |
| Section 3 (XXXV-LI) | 10:30 | Read by Chuck Williamson |
| Section 4 (LII-LXVIII) | 11:26 | Read by Chuck Williamson |
Reviews
very good reading
False Grind
I really like the voice and tone of the reader in this collection of Stephen Crane's poetry: slightly-angsty, indignant, a quiet rage brewing underneath a defiant, slow delivery -- oddly appropriate for these poems.