In the meantime

by Elizabeth Smart

Book by Smart, Elizabeth

159 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1984

About the author

Librarian’s note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. This profile is for Elizabeth^^Smart.

Elizabeth Smart (December 27, 1913 – March 4, 1986) was a Canadian poet and novelist. Her book, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, detailed her romance with the poet George Barker. She is the subject of the 1991 biography, By Heart: Elizabeth Smart a Life, by Rosemary Sullivan, and a film, Elizabeth Smart: On the Side of the Angels, produced by Maya Gallus.

Reviews

[David]

Not entirely new, but a collection worth having all the same. All the usual disturbing elements are in place, both in subject and in style. I've been feeling a kind of kinship with Smart that somehow I missed the first time I read her 30 years ago. Perhaps as so much of her writing deals with perceptions of aging, I'm just now closer to where her mind so often went. Perhaps. One never knows. But one has to imagine it before it can ever become real. A second reading increased the depth of feeling connected.

[Finn Oliebollen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a huge fan of her poetry, just her poetic prose from By Grand Central... Still, it is her and I still love Elizabeth!