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PublisherNew Directions Publishing Corporation

ISBN-100811223809

ISBN-139780811223805

eBay Product ID (ePID)201685298

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Book TitleAll the Poems-Stevie Smith

Number of Pages848 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2016

TopicWomen Authors, General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

IllustratorYes

GenrePoetry

AuthorStevie Smith

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.9 in

Item Weight38 Oz

Item Length8.8 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2015-045653

ReviewsSmith's great gift is to sit on our shoulder like a feisty bird that's traveled a long distance, has been half starved on the way, and hopes your map will be a different from hers., That sense of the uncanny, the unheimlich or the peculiar, the grip of childhood terrors, the chance--perhaps our greatest fear--of never being known, the intimacy of wickedness, they are all here, in these poems., She is a great poet because almost half a century after her death, her poems are more startling and bizarre than those of many poets who deliberately set out, as one suspects Smith never did, to be startling and bizarre., A poet who deserves a place, among her follow modernists, as one of the best, silly-serious, funny-sad, mock mock-heroic poets of our time., There is variety and inventiveness, much humor and understanding and a constant poignancy. Her gift was to create a peculiar emotional weather between the words, a sense of pity for what is infringed and unfulfilled. Death, waste, loneliness, cruelty, the maimed, the stupid, the innocent, the trusting--her concerns were central ones, her compassion genuine and her vision almost tragic., Those crazy about this wonderful and strange poet will obviously want Will May's splendid All the Poems, That sense of the uncanny, the unheimlich or the peculiar, the grip of childhood terrors, the chance--perhaps our greatest fear--of never being known, the intimacy of wickedness, they are all here, in these poems., Now, forty-five years after her death, bound inside this large annotated collection, [Smith] can be celebrated as a major English poet of the twentieth century. She is a writer of astonishing skill, range, comedy, and depth of feeling; she is inimitable, strange, and utterly original.

SynopsisThe essential edition of one of modern poetry's most distinctive voices: all Stevie Smith's flabbergasting poems, now in paperback, Stevie Smith (1902-1971) is without a doubt one of the most popular British poets of the twentieth century. Her poem Not Waving but Drowning is widely anthologized, and her life was fleshed out in the classic 1978 movie Stevie. Satirical, mischievous, teasing, disarming, her poems take readers from comedy to tragedy and back again, while her line drawings are by turns unsettling and beguiling. In this new and updated edition of her work, Stevie Smith scholar Will May collects Smith s poems and illustrations from her published volumes and provides fascinating details about their provenance, describing the various versions Smith presented on both stage and page. Collected Poems includes over five hundred works from her thirty-five year career.", Stevie Smith is among the most popular British poets of the twentieth century. Her poem "Not Waving but Drowning" has been widely anthologized, and her life was celebrated in the classic movie Stevie. This new and updated edition Stevie Smith's collected poems includes hundreds of works from her thirty-five-year career. In addition to discovering never-before-published verses, the Smith scholar Will May gathers the poems and illustrations from all her published volumes, provides fascinating details about their provenance, and describes the various versions Smith presented. Satirical, mischievous, teasing, disarming, Stevie Smith's poems take readers from comedy to tragedy and back again, while her line drawings are by turns unsettling and beguiling.

LC Classification NumberPR6037.M43 2016