Smith, Novel on Yellow Paper. Amusing novel by the famous English poetess.

Novel on Yellow Paper (Modern Classics)

STEVIE SMITH

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

Stevie Smith was one of the few modern poets to reach a wide general audience. Bizarre, witty, sad, sometimes caustic, her poems impart a zest for life, and reveal her unique eye for the marvels of the ordinary and her deep sensibility to the paradoxical nature of all human emotions.

Selected poems [of] Stevie Smith

Poetry

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Novel on Yellow Paper

Pinnacle Books

Smith herself dismissed her second novel as a failed experiment, but its attempt to parody popular genre fiction in order to explore profound political issues now seems to anticipate post-modern fiction. If anti-Semitism was one of the key themes of Novel on Yellow Paper, Over the Frontier is concerned with militarism. In particular, she asks how the necessity of fighting Fascism can be achieved without descending into the nationalism and dehumanisation that fascism represents. After a failed romance the heroine, Pompey, suffers a breakdown and is sent to Germany to recuperate. At this point the novel changes style radically, as Pompey becomes part of an adventure/spy yarn in the style of John Buchan or Dornford Yates. As the novel becomes increasingly dreamlike, Pompey crosses over the frontier to become a spy and soldier. If her initial motives are idealistic, she becomes seduced by the intrigue and, ultimately, violence. The vision Smith offers is a bleak one: "Power and cruelty are the strengths of our lives, and only in their weakness is there love."

Over the Frontier

NY: PINNACLE BOOKS. 1982

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Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith

Humor & Satire

Faber&Faber

'Cheerful, brutal, beautiful! Stevie Smith is the wildest poet of them all.' Nick Cave\n'I better say straight out that I am an addict of your poetry, a desperate Smith addict.'\nSylvia Plath, writing to Stevie Smith, 1962\n'Revolutionary, wild, and fierce.' Ali Smith\nStevie Smith was not only a famous poet in her lifetime but a poet before her time, a radical eccentric who relished the performance of poetry as sung and spoken word. The poems are distinctly unsentimental as she casts the 'eye of an anarchist' over propriety and convention, finding comedy in the tragic and tragedy in the comic. She asks the questions we don't have the nous or courage to ask, speaking for the lonely, the troubled and the trapped, and for any of us who at one time or another have found ourselves not waving but drowning.

Not Waving but Drowning and other poems

Flights of Fantasy (Literature & Thought)

Nancy Springer

ORSON SCOTT CARD

John Collier

Isaac. Asimov

Betsy Hearne

Tamra Pierce

Ruth Trowbridge

Perfection Learning

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