"Damn Katherine! Why can't I be the only woman who knows how to write?" Virginia Woolf Katherine Mansfield was, most of all, a passionate spirit. Her poems are sometimes traditional, sometimes outbursts of emotion, sometimes experiments akin to prose poems. In all she manages a strange alchemy; ordinary words are somehow transformed into powerful arrows of meaning. Into the world you sent her, mother, Fashioned her body of coral and foam, Combed a wave in her hair's warm smother, And drove her away from home. In the dark of ...
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"Damn Katherine! Why can't I be the only woman who knows how to write?" Virginia Woolf Katherine Mansfield was, most of all, a passionate spirit. Her poems are sometimes traditional, sometimes outbursts of emotion, sometimes experiments akin to prose poems. In all she manages a strange alchemy; ordinary words are somehow transformed into powerful arrows of meaning. Into the world you sent her, mother, Fashioned her body of coral and foam, Combed a wave in her hair's warm smother, And drove her away from home. In the dark of the night she crept to the town And under a doorway she laid her down, This little blue child in the foam-fringed gown. And never a sister and never a brother To hear her call, to answer her cry. Her face shone out from her hair's warm smother Like a moonkin up in the sky. She sold her corals; she sold her foam; Her rainbow heart like a singing shell Broke in her body: she crept back home. Peace, go back to the world, my daughter, Daughter, go back to the darkling land; There is nothing here but sad sea water, And a handful of sifting sand. The Sea-Child 1911 These 69 poems were collected together and published in 1923, just after Katherine Mansfield's death. Many had never been published before; others only in magazines. John Middleton Murry explains in his introductory note that they are effusions of what he calls her 'exquisite spirit, ' the uniqueness of which guarantees Mansfield her permanent place in twentieth century literature.
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Fading to spine and top cover edges, tight binding, bookplate, clean throughout, Good + 112pp, octavo. from the library of U.S. Congressman, Thomas Pelly.
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Very Good. Third printing. Previous owner's book-plate on front paste-down, name on front free endpaper, else very good in light blue cloth and striped paper covered boards. No dust jacket.
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Good in No jacket. New York: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1924. First edition. Orange and off-white patterned hardcover with green cloth spine, paper spine label, 112 pages, no dustjacket, but the rear dustjacket flap containing the author's biography is laid in loosely at the rear. Coverns rubbed through, spine label age-toned, extremities rubbed, good hinges, sound text block, name on front free endpaper, pages clean with no other markings. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
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Very Good. No Jacket. 12 vo. 2nd Printing; green c w/decorative paper covered boards; lite wear at tips; 112 clean, unmarked pages, in mylar protective wraps.
