He had gifts that would have made him an explorer, a soldier of fortune, a revolutionist: they were qualities fatal to a poet. –Malcolm Cowley’s summary of Harry Crosby Having studied the works of the likes of Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence, and James Joyce at university, I was really surprised that I hadn’t heard of their mutual friends, Harry and Caresse Crosby earlier. I’m currently reading Lucy Moore’s Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties, a portrait