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Found: Bonnie and Clyde ballads

A previously undiscovered cache of poems written by Bonnie Parker, half of the 20th century’s most notorious criminal couple, have shown the depth of her love for Clyde Barrow, her partner in crime.

Parker apparently wrote the nine poems while briefly imprisoned in 1932 at the age of 22, two years after meeting Barrow and being seduced into a life of robbery.

Few other poems by Parker have emerged and experts did not realise she had written so much...

The notebook containing the poems is being sold by the family of JW Tidwell, a guard Parker is believed to have befriended in prison. It is expected to raise £15,000-£25,000 in an auction at Bonhams [in New York] in June.

The poems, written in the popular ballad style of the 1920s and 1930s, celebrate hobos, prostitutes and, above all, her fugitive lover.
Read entire article at Times (of London)