By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

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Luego también te encuentras otro profe (o puede que sea el mismo) que te cuenta que las mujeres tienen una forma de escribir diferente a la de los hombres. Published in 1945, it is one of the earlier examples of "poetic prose," and the mention on the back cover that it is like Anais Nin and Djuna Barnes makes me want to read both of them; in my reading experience it is closest to Jeannette Winterson, one of the authors I love and adore. Brigid Brophy's intro celebrates Smart's juxtaposition of high-flown dramatic romance and the mundane, whereby a person can be a middle class housewife and Isolde at the same time: “it is tomorrow's breakfast rather than the future's blood that dictates fatal forbearance”.

Whereas Wigan Wallgate, say, would be sufficiently opposite to cause a smile if one knew the reference – and would also bring out the misery and ignominy of the weeping that could be hidden by a more obvious glamour. But I was in a reading slump, and it was so different from what I was slogging through, that I enjoyed immersing into her emotions. The first piece in this book is an autobiographical-ish story of the authors love for the poet George Barker.If those who look in see me condescend to barricade the door, they will know too much and crowd in to overcome me. Y un día encuentras un libro que te hace ver que lo que te contaron puede que no sea siempre cierto, pero a veces puede ser cierto.

First in his poetry, then in their written correspondence, and through Barker's encouragement of Smart's own writing. And more irredeemable than any human catastrophe, the dinosaurs trailed across the desert to their end.But, for all its furious romance, it was also a relationship that has confused many, riddled as it was with rows, alcoholism, absences and affairs. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept is her ‘prose poetry’ novel of her long term love affair with the married English poet George Barker.

In 1963 she became literary and associate editor of Queen magazine but subsequently dropped out of the literary scene to live quietly in a remote part of Suffolk. Puede incluso que la autora los dejara estos en un segundo plano a propósito para centrarse en aquéllos y describir un amor llevado hasta las últimas consecuencias con completa franqueza, permitiendo al lector penetrar hasta una intimidad que otros guardarían celosamente. They had a protracted and dreary relationship and four children, despite his marriage and complete lack of commitment to her or anyone else.No leo poesía, no consigo disfrutarla, y sin embargo no es otra cosa esta personal e impúdica novela de Elizabeth Smart. Pero no fue así; llorar hubiera significado no entender nada de lo que cuenta Elizabeth Smart: cuando se elige amar plenamente o se gana todo o se pierde todo, pero no hay drama. She arranged to meet him, their attraction was mutual and it led to a long trans-Atlantic love affair through and following WWII. Nevertheless there are some - many - beautiful lines, a few of which immediately jumped out at me as being recognisable from Smiths songs, especially those used in 'What She Said' (a song particularly close to my heart because, as I may have mentioned before, for part of my A Level English coursework I wrote a dramatic monologue based on it. I was young, in my second year of university, in the process of having my heightened idea of self which seems to cling to all 19 ( or there abouts) year-olds dismantled very abruptly.