The Collected Poems
by Sylvia Plath
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Author: Sylvia PlathEditor: Ted Hughes
Edition: Perfect Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1992
ISBN: 0060909005
Number of pages: 351
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Book Review: "I am not cruel, only truthful-"
Summary: 5 Stars
Sylvia Plath was a woman with a whole lot of emotions and masks. Sometimes labeled as feminist, a victim, a martyr and a suicide... whether she was or was not these things, she forged a compelling new voice in the l960s America. (She did commit suicide in 1963.) She was perhaps ahead of her time. She is one of the most read American female poets of the 20th century and one of the most talented, as well. Her poems are the window to her soul, an extension of her life. (Some have labeled her as a "Confessional Poet", along with Anne Sexton and Adrienne Rich.) As great poets do, she has left us with a legacy of poems such as Lady Lazarus, Daddy and Mirror.THE COLLECTED PLEMS OF SYLVIA PLATH is a collection of poems by Plath written between the years of 1956-1963. Also included are 50 early poems written by Plath, titled Juvenilia. With an introduction by her then husband Ted Hughes, who gives us some insights as to who Sylvia Plath was as a woman, poet, mother, and wife. (There are also notes on the poems at the end, written by Hughes.)
Plath's sometimes sad and painful poems tell us, what kind of person she was. Her flaws show us that she was indeed human and that her stark honesty touches me even more. Her struggle with her inner demons is often what characterizes her poems. The glimpse of her soul that we get through her poems, though it may have come from somewhere dark, is brutally beautiful.
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