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By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

Elizabeth Smart

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Jun 17, 2014 Antonomasia rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: decade-1940s, poetry, epic-poems-and-novels-in-verse, 2015

Feb 2015.
Prose poems about how bloody exhausting it is to be in love.
For some of the people / some of the times, I mean (being old enough to know those who have made it into something sustainable).

This has survived as a cult book largely thanks to Morrissey. Grand Central Station has over a hundred times more readers on here than the memoir of the affair by Smart's lover George Barker. You've won, Liz... Though - as they remained, tempestuously and non-exclusively, involved until her demise - s ...more

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Feb 03, 2019 Laura rated it really liked it

Shelves: hf-world-war-ii, 1000-guardian, read-2019, fiction-20th-century, audio-books, canadian-literature, poetic-prose

FRom BBC radio 4 - Drama:
The story of Elizabeth Smart's fated and intense love-affair with the poet George Barker. In love with his poetry, Elizabeth pursues George. She arranges to meet him. He arrives - but with a wife, Jessica. George and Elizabeth’s blistering affair begins.

Against family disapproval and Jessica’s guile, Elizabeth fights for George. The depth of their passion can only end in painful betrayal.

This adaptation of the story behind Elizabeth Smart’s classic work of poetic prose c ...more

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