By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart. 1945 Editions Poetry London, first edition, 54 pages. A seminal work of Canadian autofiction about the affair and pregnancy with married British poet George Barker. Only 2000 were printed. The book scandalized Smart’s mother and she bought and burned every copy she could find in Canada after having successfully petitioned for it to be banned. Twenty years later the book was reissued, and Smart didn't publish again until twenty years after that.
Condition: Jacket in tattered fair condition, book in fair/acceptable condition having suffered water damage
"Why do I not jump off this cliff where I lie sickened by the moon?"
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart. 1945 Editions Poetry London, first edition, 54 pages. A seminal work of Canadian autofiction about the affair and pregnancy with married British poet George Barker. Only 2000 were printed. The book scandalized Smart’s mother and she bought and burned every copy she could find in Canada after having successfully petitioned for it to be banned. Twenty years later the book was reissued, and Smart didn't publish again until twenty years after that.
Condition: Jacket in tattered fair condition, book in fair/acceptable condition having suffered water damage
"Why do I not jump off this cliff where I lie sickened by the moon?"