Elizabeth Smart was a Canadian author born just before WWI. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept is her ‘prose poetry’ novel of her long term love affair with the married English poet George Barker. Her novel is almost all raw emotion, so Wikipedia helped me to fill in some of the details: Smart read a volume of Barker’s poetry in a bookstore in London in the late 1930s and fell in love with him through his work. She arranged to meet him, […]
Teenage me would have loved it, adult me is more ‘meh’
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
