Selected poems (original 1964; edition 1964)

by Stevie Smith

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Stevie Smith was one of the few modern poets to reach a wide general audience with her wholly individual and brilliantly irreverent verse. Deliciously barbed, amusing and amused, laced with powerful themes of love and death and wonderfully illustrated by her equally idiosyncratic drawings, these poems reveal her unique eye for the marvels of the ordinary and the joy and absurdity of life.… (more)

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Member:	BeckyJP
Title:	Selected poems
Authors:	Stevie Smith
Info:	[Norfolk, Conn., J. Laughlin, 1964]
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Selected Poems by Stevie Smith (1964)

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MacGibbon, James	Editor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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Stevie Smith was one of the few modern poets to reach a wide general audience with her wholly individual and brilliantly irreverent verse. Deliciously barbed, amusing and amused, laced with powerful themes of love and death and wonderfully illustrated by her equally idiosyncratic drawings, these poems reveal her unique eye for the marvels of the ordinary and the joy and absurdity of life.

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