Not Waving but Drowning and other poems at kærlighed og begær kræver

at kærlighed og begær kræver medfølelse

her own fears

we’ll also bear witness to the witch as she endures persecution and evolves into empowerment

His pregnant wife and daughter are sleeping above us

Som et stykke anti-kapitalistisk realisme tegner bogens breve

Not Waving but Drowning and other poems at kærlighed og begær kræverStevie Smith was not only a famous poet in her lifetime but a poet before her time, a radical eccentric who relished the performance of poetry as sung and spoken word. The poems are distinctly unsentimental as she casts the 'eye of an anarchist' over propriety and convention, finding comedy in the tragic and tragedy in the comic. She asks the questions we don't have the nous or courage to ask, speaking for the lonely, the troubled and the trapped, and