<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459796" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Stevie Smith reading her poems</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">She was not yet really 'known' -<br>but asked to read by this small group<br>of older Jewish refugees and eager youngsters, <br>talent destined for a fame, <br>at the tiny Gaberbocchus Press</div><div style="margin:10px 0">which did not affect at all<br>the self-contained aloneness <br>that walked up the aisle from door to barely stage</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and in a clear dry voice neither apology nor hope<br>read her poems that gave a meaning<br>to the new word 'throwaway' - they were her, <br>she read them, threw the invisible sheets away, <br>and if you caught them as you laughed<br>which was easier than crying tears, <br>so be it. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her voice at the poems' end<br>was herself: as if, not waving, no, but drowning, neatly, <br>with a certain acceptance, <br>in the incomprehensibility of life; she read<br>as if when the poem ended<br>you might quickly but quietly rise from your seat<br>and leave, not rudely but because<br>there was nothing more to say</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459796" data-title="Stevie Smith reading her poems de Michael Shepherd" data-description="She was not yet really 'known' - but asked to read by this small group of older Jewish refugees and eager youngsters, talent destined for a fame, at the tiny Gaberbocchus Press which did not affect at all the self-contained aloneness that walk..."></div> </div> </div>

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