Results for "Smith, Stevie"

The essential edition of one of modern poetry’s most distinctive voices: all Stevie Smith’s flabbergasting poems, now in paperback Stevie Smith is among the most popular British poets of the twentieth century. Her poem “Not Waving but Drowning” has been widely anthologized, and her life was celebrat... Read More about All the Poems: Stevie Smith

The eccentric landmark novel by the legendary English poet Stevie Smith: “a rare bird, a Maltese falcon” (The New Yorker) I am a forward-thinking girl, and don’t stay where I am. ‘Left right, be bright.’ Pompey Casmilus, Stevie Smith’s loquacious alter ego, works as a secretary and writes down on ye... Read More about Novel on Yellow Paper

The most delightful of English poets — mordantly amusing and fresh as a sassy cat 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 sprinkle... Read More about Best Poems of Stevie Smith

An amazing and deeply insightful account of how two normal guys decided to embark upon the unthinkable: an attempt to circumnavigate the globe using just human powered means. On a rainy, miserable Monday morning in Paris a twenty-something bureaucrat decides there must be more to life than the Unite... Read More about Pedaling to Hawaii: A Human-Powered Odyssey