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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.912
EAN: 9780811210683
ISBN: 0811210685
Label: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Manufacturer: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 168
Publication Date: September 01, 1988
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Sales Rank: 217938
Studio: New Directions Publishing Corporation
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Rating: - Unique genius
Stevie Smith is my absolute favorite poet. I love Yeats and T.S. Eliot, but not as much as I love Stevie! I read her poems over and over again and never get tired of them. Her voice is unique. Her style is so conversational that it's possible to miss how tightly constructed these gems are. She is grotesque, witty, fearless, and fascinating. Her subject matter ranges from God, death, war, children, cats, hats, and just about everything in between. Her work has great subtlety and depth, and yes, a ... Read More
Rating: - A Courageous Eccentric
Morbid, yet never cynical, wryly funny, thought- and laughter- provoking poems by a curious, curmudgeonly bona fide English ecentric. Ideal for grown-ups who enjoy all "styles" of poetry and who are ready for "flights" of fancy, wherever they may land.
Rating:  - An American Classic
This is a good selection of Stevie Smith's poetry - and it is good that Smith should have such a volume in print in the States. Americans - with a tradition ranging from Whitman to the beat poets - should find Smith easier to accept than the English who have always maintained some reserve about this most original of writers. Obviously any Selected Poems is going to omit favourites - this volume really should have included 'The Magic Morning': read it in the Collected Poems - but 'The Galloping Cat' ... Read More
Rating: - Poetry and Pictures Style Oh My
Stevie Smith combines poetry and pictures in a remarkably unique style. The reader is wonderfully challenged by the supposed inconsistencies of the two modes. However with a closer examination the complexity of the work diffuses into simple genius. Smith's collection of poetry offers a wide range of topics including such issues as childhood, politics, animals, marriage and so forth. I guarantee that once a reader gets into the rhythm of her poetry, they will become avid Stevie Smith readers. ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 821.912
EAN: 9780811210683
ISBN: 0811210685
Label: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Manufacturer: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 168
Publication Date: September 01, 1988
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Sales Rank: 217938
Studio: New Directions Publishing Corporation