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New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith

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by: Stevie Smith See Larger Image List Price: $14.95 Amazon.com's Price: $10.17 You Save: $4.78 (32%) as of 11/21/2009 18:42 EST Third Party New Price: $10.17 Availability: Not yet published Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 821 EAN: 9780811218610 ISBN: 0811218619 Label: New Directions Manufacturer: New Directions Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 160 Publication Date: October 28, 2009 Publisher: New Directions Studio: New Directions Related Items: Selected Poems Collected Poems Novel on Yellow Paper, Or, Work It Out for Yourself (New Directions Paperbook, No 778) Collected Poems Selected Poems 1957-1994 see more Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: A uniquely often humorous poet who accompanies her work with her own line drawings and doodles. While many authors are often lauded as “unique,” for Stevie Smith no other adjective will suffice, though David Orr tried calling her “the cartoon-drawing, school-girl dress-wearing, near doggerel-spouting British poet.” 70 b&w illustrations. Customer Reviews Average Rating: 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 eccentric. 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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