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By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

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I'm awful at praising things I really like. "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept" captures doomed and terminal love that will never fully die in a wonderful / painful manner.

Porque impúdica es la desnudez sentimental con la que se nos presenta Smart en la novela, la absoluta falta de contención al dar rienda suelta a su desgarro, al dolor que siente por la devastadora, tiránica y totalizadora pasión que la domina y que antepone a todo, a su familia, a sus hijos, a ella misma.What I really liked about this piece, is the serene melancholy written with precious meticulousness: You don't take much interest in politics, do you? You never read the newspapers? I drank my coffee, but I had a slight feeling of nausea. It's to be expected, I don't mind it at all, it's nothing. Chamber pop duo, Heavy Bell (made up of Matt Peters and Tom Keenan) released an album titled By Grand Central Station (2018), which they called "a paean to the novel: a song of praise and triumph". [6] a b Norton, Ingrid (October 1, 2010). "A Year with Short Novels: Elizabeth Smart, Queen of Sheba". Open Letters Monthly.

when i was fifteen, i had a journal. and i would smoke a joint and lie on my tummy and record my huge earthshattering thoughts. because i write huge purple monsters of sentences and only end up making myself small and shy when i come across them years later. And more irredeemable than any human catastrophe, the dinosaurs trailed across the desert to their end. They left no descendents to embellish their saga, but only the white bones and the marks in the clay for archeologists to make into footnotes. Our hour may be this hour, and our end the dinosaurs’. No, I believe you, of course, I believe you for didn't you say I was the one? Yes, you said, Take care of this girl for she is what makes my blood circulate and all the stars revolve and the seasons return. For some of the people / some of the times, I mean (being old enough to know those who have made it into something sustainable).

For who plans suicide sitting in the sun? It is the pile of dust under the bed, the dirty sheets that were never washed, that precipitate fatal action. Y pese a tanto sufrimiento, Smart expone claramente su preferencia por esta destructora cara del amor si la alternativa es la mera indiferencia. Pues no querría yo sentir una pasión tan desgarradora, ni que la sintieran por mí, no querría ser yo, no soy, esta yonqui del sentimiento que rehúsa cualquier método de desintoxicación y capaz de decir: A pesar de los esfuerzos de la familia de la autora para que el libro no viese la luz, en los círculos literarios de Nueva York y Londres terminó por convertirse en una obra de culto. Se volvió a publicar en 1966 y, en esta ocasión, su inmediato éxito permitió a Elizabeth Smart dedicarse por fin una carrera literaria que había comenzado a los diez años y que sus pasiones habían truncado. This is about love, desperation, and mental disparity (contemplated suicide also plays a role here). It is beautiful and disjointed; somber, yet hopeful; trenchant, yet gracious, and articulate, but at times, also reticent.

But my eyes, like the bloody setting sun, peer through the veils and mists which rise from sorrow, towards that meeting which I must have or die. Elizabeth Smart, escritora y poetisa precoz, nació en 1913 en el seno de una de las familias más destacadas e influyentes de Ottawa. En 1937, con tan sólo veinticuatro años, leyó un libro del poeta inglés George Barker e inmediatamente se enamoró de sus versos y de paso, sin siquiera conocerle, de él. Hizo todo lo posible por encontrarse con él, a pesar de que sabía que estaba casado, y finalmente se las ingenió para conseguir, a principios de los años cuarenta, que Barker visitara junto con su esposa la colonia de escritores en la que Elizabeth vivía en California. Injure me, betray me, but only make me sure of the love, for all day and night, away from him and with him, everywhere and always, that is my gravity, and the apples (which ben ripe in my gardayne) fall only towards that. This was my dream, and why I had circles under my eyes this morning at breakfast. Everyone noticed it, and I think one of them sniggered.brigid brophy's introduction is excellent. i read it last, of course, and it made me appreciate the book so much more in retrospect, and it also reminded me of the several parts i did enjoy. but i have to give it two stars, because i really didn't enjoy reading it. there were moments of great beauty, but too many parts where i was just gagging on her prose. i am all for pain and howling emotions,but isn't it the responsibility of the writer to marry the vulnerable raw nerves with craft?? it is true there were many moments where i was totally on-board with her writing, but when it was bad, it was very very bad.

Not surprisingly, this book, which was first published in 1945, ends up in a lament--with mythical and biblical interpretations. It is the kind of book someone gives a 3-star rating, and the other, a 5-star rating. If you're a lover of the prose poem, chances are, you will love this. If poetry moves you, if you are patient with the line-by-line completion in poetry because you read it with the understanding that you will grasp its meaning only per its line and not its full body, then you will appreciate this piece. However, if you are not a lover of poetry, chances are, you will hate this prose poem, for you will expect scenes and plot and definition; you will expect a narrative thread, instead, you will find a thread of mood and imagery. I'm somewhere in the middle (as is evident by my rating), but this is one of those books that adheres to the definition of a classic because after reading it, I placed it on my shelf with the thought that I must revisit it in a year or two. Cada una de las diez partes en que se divide En Grand Central Station me senté y lloré es como una imagen aislada; diez instantáneas tomadas en distintos momentos de la relación de Elizabeth Smart con el poeta George Barker. Y aunque estas imágenes, casi abstractas en ocasiones, transmiten con viveza los sentimientos de su autora, el relato de su relación con Barker apenas se puede seguir en el texto. The parchment philosopher has no traffic with the night, and no conception of the price of love. With smoky circles of thought he tries to combat the fog, and with anagrams to defeat anatomy. I posture in vain with his weapons, even though I am balmed with his nicotine herbs. The first novella is so perfect that the second one feels unnecessary. It's sort of the sequel, the and then this stuff happened, but it feels unwanted in the book. The first novella had everything and I thought this will be awesome, it will be more of the greatness. But it's not as good. It's not that "The Assumption of Rogues & Rascals" is bad, it's quite good actually, but it's not of the same caliber as the first piece. But with or without us, the Day itself must return, we insist, when the Joke at least sits basking in the sun, decorating her idle body with nameless red, once blood.De hecho, a pesar de todos los reveses recibidos, el amor que sentía la hizo sentir invencible, poderosa, fecunda. “¿Necesitáis alegría, necesitáis amor? ¿Sois hojas empapadas en algún patio olvidado? ¿Sufrís frío, hambre, soledad, parálisis, ceguera? Tengo lo que queráis, a puñados, a brazadas, para todos.” Una fecundidad capaz de alumbrar una obra tan bella y conmovedora como En Grand Central Station me senté y lloré; una joya literaria que sorprende por su plasticidad y por su pasión, pero también por el uso que Elizabeth Smart hace del lenguaje, tan rico y libre como su forma de amar. Y en cada una de esas etapas, esta tormenta de emociones queda enmarcada dentro de un triángulo amoroso omnipresente, en el que la relación entre ambas mujeres –la rivalidad, la admiración, la culpa– es tan importante como las otras dos. Todo está condensado en esas diez fotografías sacadas del álbum de Elizabeth y George: los nervios del primer encuentro; la exaltación de la felicidad, de la belleza y la juventud que no pueden desperdiciarse sin amor; la feminidad desbordada; el orgullo de sentirse amada; el dolor y la desesperación en los momentos de separación; la espera interminable; el rechazo de los demás.

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