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Elizabeth Smart
(1913 - 1986)

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Elizabeth Smart was born 1913, Ottawa, Ontario, in a prominent family and she was educated at private schools in Canada and for a year at King's College, at the University of London. While browsing in a London bookshop she found a book of poetry by George Barker, and fell in love with him through .. .. more >>

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"I am over-run, jungled in my bed, I am infested with a menagerie of desires: my heart is eaten by a dove, a cat scrambles in the cave of my sex, hounds in my bed obey a whipmaster who cries nothing but havoc as the hours test my endurance with an accumulation of tortures. Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders?"
Elizabeth Smart (1913-1986), Canadian author, poet. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, pt. 1 (1945).

"O I know they make war because they want peace; they hate so that they may live; and they destroy the present to make the world safe for the future. When have they not done and said they did it for that?"
Elizabeth Smart (1913-1986), Canadian author, poet. Necessary Secrets, entry for Feb. 18, 1941, ed. Alice Van Wart (1991).

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Kicker Ofelves (8/7/2008 10:36:00 AM)
It's amazing that she could get kidnapped from her home, engage in polygamy with an old hippie and his wife, be 'rescued', go into a media firestorm, practice the harp and still find time to write such poetry. That Brian Mitchell must've had some fine technique or pimp-hand to drive her to write this:

'I am over-run, jungled in my bed, I am infested with a menagerie of desires: my heart is eaten by a dove, a cat scrambles in the cave of my sex, hounds in my bed obey a whipmaster who cries nothing but havoc as the hours test my endurance with an accumulation of tortures.'

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Elizabeth Smart kidnapping - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The companions were Elizabeth Smart — disguised in a grey wig, sunglasses, and veil — and Wanda Ileen Barzee. Smart was finally recognized by the officers ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Smart_kidnapping

ABC News: Smart: Life 'Great,' but Still Fears Abductors
Mar 12, 2008 ... Elizabeth Smart Afraid Alleged Kidnappers Will Come After Her Again ... Elizabeth Smart, the girl whose abduction in 2002 captivated the ...
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/TurningPoints/story?id=4432724&page=1

CNN.com - Elizabeth Smart found alive - Mar. 13, 2003
Missing teenager Elizabeth Smart, the subject of an intense police hunt since she was reported abducted from her bedroom last summer, was found alive ...
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/03/12/smart.kidnapping/index.html

Elizabeth Smart: A Who2 Profile
Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her bedroom on 5 June 2002 by a gun-wielding stranger who had broken into her family's Salt Lake City home.
http://www.who2.com/elizabethsmart.html

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