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Best Poems of Stevie Smith

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by Stevie Smith
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Stevie SmithPublish date:2013-12-23Pages:160
Languages:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811221948ISBN-10:811221946UPC:9780811221948Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4Product ID:SCY2N0VW5V

Extraordinarily funny, with the fresh eye of a visitor from another world, Stevie Smith is a poet to savor. Wielding a throwaway wit and the strangest irony, Stevie Smith was deeply read in the classics and yet sprinkled her poetry with delightful doodles. Her poems are often very dark; her characters are perpetually saying "goodbye" to their friends or welcoming death. At the same time her work has an eerie levity. Countless are her witty ways. The title of her first collection says it perfectly: A Good Time Was Had by All.

I longed for companionship rather,
But my companions I always wished farther.
And now in the desolate night
I think only of people I should like to bite.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811221948ISBN-10:811221946UPC:9780811221948Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4Product ID:SCY2N0VW5V
Smith, Stevie: - Stevie Smith (1902-1971) was born in Hull, England, but when she was three she moved with her parents and sister to Avondale Road in Palmers Green. Here she stayed for over sixty years, after her parents' death living with her beloved "Lion Aunt." She was the author of three novels and a dozen collections of poetry. Although baptized Florence Margaret Smith, she was nicknamed Stevie after Steve Donoghue the jockey.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

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