This Dame Collected

Office copies of Edith Sitwell's Collected Poems showed up today! Hot Dame!

Long out of print in the United States, Overlook Press is bringing this overlooked poet back to bookshelves across our great land this June!

Look how excited she is! Here's a sneak peak poem! Catch Sitwell Fever!--Jim

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By the blue wooden sea,
Curling capriciously,
Coral and amber grots
(Cherries and apricots),
Ribbons of noisy heat
Binding them head and feet,
Horses as fat as plums
Snort as each bumpkin comes :
Giggles like towers of glass
(Pink and blue spirals) pass ;
Oh, how the Vacancy
Laughed at them rushing by !
‘ Turn again, flesh and brain,
Only yourselves again !
How far above the Ape,
Differing in each shape,
You with your regular,
Meaningless circles are !’