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Beschreibung

'Cheerful, brutal, beautiful! Stevie Smith is the wildest poet of them all.' Nick Cave

'I better say straight out that I am an addict of your poetry, a desperate Smith addict.'
Sylvia Plath, writing to Stevie Smith, 1962

'Revolutionary, wild, and fierce.' Ali Smith


Stevie Smith was not only a famous poet in her lifetime but a poet before her time, a radical eccentric who relished the performance of poetry as sung and spoken word. The poems are distinctly unsentimental as she casts the 'eye of an anarchist' over propriety and convention, finding comedy in the tragic and tragedy in the comic. She asks the questions we don't have the nous or courage to ask, speaking for the lonely, the troubled and the trapped, and for any of us who at one time or another have found ourselves not waving but drowning.

'Cheerful, brutal, beautiful! Stevie Smith is the wildest poet of them all.' Nick Cave

'I better say straight out that I am an addict of your poetry, a desperate Smith addict.'
Sylvia Plath, writing to Stevie Smith, 1962

'Revolutionary, wild, and fierce.' Ali Smith


Stevie Smith was not only a famous poet in her lifetime but a poet before her time, a radical eccentric who relished the performance of poetry as sung and spoken word. The poems are distinctly unsentimental as she casts the 'eye of an anarchist' over propriety and convention, finding comedy in the tragic and tragedy in the comic. She asks the questions we don't have the nous or courage to ask, speaking for the lonely, the troubled and the trapped, and for any of us who at one time or another have found ourselves not waving but drowning.

Über den Autor
Stevie Smith (1902-71) lived in Palmers Green, London, and for much of her life worked as a secretary for the magazine publishers Sir George Newnes and Sir Neville Pearson. Her first book, Novel on Yellow Paper, appeared in 1936, and her final collection of poems, Scorpion, was published posthumously in 1972. In 1966 she received a Cholmondeley Award and in 1969 was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Reihe: Faber & Faber
Inhalt: 48 S.
ISBN-13: 9780571391615
ISBN-10: 0571391613
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Smith, Stevie
Hersteller: Faber and Faber
Faber & Faber
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 179 x 119 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Stevie Smith
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.10.2024
Gewicht: 0,127 kg
Artikel-ID: 129361368

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