American novelist and short story writer, Stephen Crane: Nov. 1, 1871 - 1900…
Crane brought new life to American prose in the Naturalist vein, fusing it with a form of Impressionism and rough lyricism hitherto unknown. Crane’s novella Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is an example of social issues being thematized without undue sentimantalism - and his master-piece The Red Badge of Courage stands as one of the most complex depictions of war and battle ever produced in English…
But today, a poem:
In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, ‘Is it good, friend?’
It is bitter — bitter,’ he answered,
But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart.
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