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Source: Stevie Smith, “Not Waving but Drowning,” from Collected Poems of Stevie Smith (New York: New Directions, 1983). Copyright © 1972 by Stevie Smith. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. and by permission of Faber and Faber, Ltd.
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Mark Smith
Thanks for this wonderful illustration of a poem I used to teach. I always loved it, and I like to think my students did too. Many of them "got it" right away, adolescence being a time of feigned competence and quiet suffering for many. It's a great poem by a great poet, beautifully illustrated. Thank you!