![]() It lasted for decades and they ended up having four children together. Eventually in 1940 she convinced him to come to the US with this wife (he had been teaching in Japan), and it was then that they began their affair. ![]() The story goes that Smart fell in love with Barker just by reading his poetry, and she began to correspond with him. ![]() It is a fictionalised telling of Elizabeth Smart’s infatuation and affair with the poet George Barker, and its devastating effect on her. It is technically a prose-poem novel, kind of like The Waves, but shorter and more immediate (to me at least). I read it in two sittings, partly because it’s under 200 pages, and partly because it is so intense that I couldn’t tear myself away. And so I finally ordered a copy of By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept from Wordery. Luckily my reading lists project is getting me to read more of these sorts of books. This is one of those books that I had heard of vaguely and meant to read for ages – but for some reason didn’t. ![]()
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