By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept is a novel in prose poetry, considered one of the classics of that small genre. In floods of passionate and powerful words, Elizabeth Smart glides through the story of her affair with another poet, a married man. Their romance begins in Northern California under the cool pines of the coast. They attempt to travel together to Arizona and are arrested, leading to one of the most intense scenes where Smart weaves quotes from the Song of Songs through the police interrogation. While things are good, Smart's lines hum and sing with overflowing joy. Perhaps inevitably, things begin to go wrong. But the elegance of the language is no less as weary and confusing realities loom larger and larger.