By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

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The book barely describes Baker but it is able to impart the variety of emotions that a woman-in-love with a married man feels.

Porque eso es En Grand Central Station me senté y lloré, situado a medio camino entre la poesía y la novela; imágenes de una intensidad y una belleza fuera de lo común.Smart's mother Louise led a successful campaign with government officials to have its publication banned in Canada. The question of how much of the speaker is Smart, is one that can be almost entirely ignored at present. Though she, likewise, survived independently without significant mishap, no doubt feeling she was like a dead siamese twin being dragged around by life - but also by some autopilot hoovering and shaving between all the howling.

Elizabeth Smart, escritora y poetisa precoz, nació en 1913 en el seno de una de las familias más destacadas e influyentes de Ottawa. Things I'd forgotten: even to recline reminds me of the stances of love, and I am unable to bear the pain of so much remembering (especially when something had never before been anyone else's favourite as it was mine). Brigid Brophy described the novel as "one of the half-dozen masterpieces of poetic prose in the world". 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.I read as much as I could about the relationship of Elizabeth Smart and George Barker beforehand, and it enhanced my understanding and appreciation of the book. Predating (although not by much) the confessional feminist style made famous by Sylvia Plath, Smart wrote with uncompromising person honesty, paralleling in literature the deeply personal painting of feminist artists such as Frida Kahlo. From the little I've read elsewhere, it sounds like his former fame had much to do with personal charisma, which meant it waned after his death in old age. Written in the early 1940's while Smart was in the throes of passionate obsession, it is hot without being salacious. I do, however, have Rosemary Sullivan's biography of Elizabeth Smart somewhere on one of my bookcases, and having read 'By Grand Central Station' I am now even more interested in reading the biography and discovering more about her life.

This is about love, desperation, and mental disparity (contemplated suicide also plays a role here). Where Spark is all concision, Smart is all excess, where Spark is firm and trim, Smart is soft and yielding. I am shot with wounds which have eyes that see a world all sorrow, always to be, panoramic and unhealable, and mouths that hang unspeakable in the sky of blood. This contained moments of sweeping, all-encompassing truth and beauty interspersed with shallow angst and stunted, introspective thinking.He speaks of a childhood yearning for his father's presence that would later turn to rage and resentment.

I don't think you can just pick the book up and understand what it's about without some background information. Nevertheless he first three chapters could overwhelm with the volume of the chords they struck (I gave in to underlining, very rare, weakened by reading a successsion of 5 ebooks just prior. And more irredeemable than any human catastrophe, the dinosaurs trailed across the desert to their end. The title was adapted by the band The Kitchens of Distinction in the song "On Tooting Broadway Station".

I was so looking forward to reading it and I'm sorry to say that I found this work of poetic prose to be quite slow, especially in the first parts. If those who look in see me condescend to barricade the door, they will know too much and crowd in to overcome me.