Best Poems of Stevie Smith

by Stevie Smith

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811221946
• ISBN13: 9780811221948
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.9"