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Arielby Sylvia PlathISBN 1568497237 (1-56849-723-7)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ariel'Book summary:Sylvia Plath churned out her final poems at the remarkable rate of two or three a day, and Robert Lowell describes them as written by "hardly a person at all ... but one of those super-real, hypnotic, great classical heroines." Even more remarkable, she wrote them during one of the coldest, snowiest winters (1962-63) Londoners have ever known. Snowbound, without central heating, she and her two children spent much of their time sniffling, coughing, or running temperatures (In "Fever 103°" she writes, "I have been flickering, off, on, off on. / The sheets grow heavy as a lecher's kiss."). Pipes froze, lights failed, and candles were unobtainable.
As if these physical privations weren't enough, Plath was out in the cold in another sense--her husband, Ted Hughes, had left her for another woman earlier that year. Despite all this (or perhaps because of it), the Ariel poems dazzle with their lyricism, their surprising and vivid imagery, and their wit. Rather than confining herself to her bleak surroundings, Plath draws from a wide array of experience. In "Berck-Plage," for instance, clouds are "electrifyingly-coloured sherbets, scooped from the freeze." In "The Night Dances," the poet stands crib-side, reveling in her son's own brand of do-si-do: "Such pure leaps and spirals--Surely they travel / The world forever, I shall not entirely / Sit emptied of beauties, the gift / Of your small breath..."
Though at times they present the reader with hopelessness laid bare, these poems also teem with the brightest shards of a life, confounding those who merely look for the words of a gloomy, dispassionate suicide. Plath rose each morning in the final months of her life to "that still blue, almost eternal hour before the baby's cry" and left us these words like "axes/After whose stroke the wood rings..." [via]
Ariel Ascending: Writings About Sylvia Plathby Paul AlexanderISBN 0060911751 (0-06-091175-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Ariel: The Restored Edition, A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangementby Sylvia Plath, Frieda HughesISBN 0060732601 (0-06-073260-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ariel: The Restored Edition, A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement'Book summary:Sylvia Plath churned out her final poems at the remarkable rate of two or three a day, and Robert Lowell describes them as written by "hardly a person at all ... but one of those super-real, hypnotic, great classical heroines." Even more remarkable, she wrote them during one of the coldest, snowiest winters (1962-63) Londoners have ever known. Snowbound, without central heating, she and her two children spent much of their time sniffling, coughing, or running temperatures (In "Fever 103°" she writes, "I have been flickering, off, on, off on. / The sheets grow heavy as a lecher's kiss."). Pipes froze, lights failed, and candles were unobtainable.
As if these physical privations weren't enough, Plath was out in the cold in another sense--her husband, Ted Hughes, had left her for another woman earlier that year. Despite all this (or perhaps because of it), the Ariel poems dazzle with their lyricism, their surprising and vivid imagery, and their wit. Rather than confining herself to her bleak surroundings, Plath draws from a wide array of experience. In "Berck-Plage," for instance, clouds are "electrifyingly-coloured sherbets, scooped from the freeze." In "The Night Dances," the poet stands crib-side, reveling in her son's own brand of do-si-do: "Such pure leaps and spirals--Surely they travel / The world forever, I shall not entirely / Sit emptied of beauties, the gift / Of your small breath..."
Though at times they present the reader with hopelessness laid bare, these poems also teem with the brightest shards of a life, confounding those who merely look for the words of a gloomy, dispassionate suicide. Plath rose each morning in the final months of her life to "that still blue, almost eternal hour before the baby's cry" and left us these words like "axes/After whose stroke the wood rings..." [via]
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- Ariel: The Restored Edition, A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement: ISBN 0060732598 (0-06-073259-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Ariel: The Restored Edition, A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement: ISBN 057122685X (0-571-22685-X)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber - Ariel: The Restored Edition, A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement: ISBN 0060732601 (0-06-073260-1)
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- Ariel: The Restored Edition, A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement: ISBN 0060732598 (0-06-073259-8)
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Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of Birthday Lettersby Erica WagnerISBN 0393323013 (0-393-32301-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of Birthday Letters'Book summary:"This erudite critical study...breathes new life into Plath scholarship."Publishers Weekly, starred review
When Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters was published in 1998, it was greeted with astonishment and acclaim, immediately landing on the bestseller list. Few suspected that Hughes had been at work for a quarter of a century on this cycle of poems addressed to his first wife, Sylvia Plath. In Ariel's Gift, Erica Wagner explores the destructive relationship between these two poets through their lives and their writings. She provides a commentary to the poems in Birthday Letters, showing the events that shaped them and, crucially, showing how they draw upon Plath's own work. "Both narratively engaging and scholastically comprehensive."Thomas Lynch, Los Angeles Times "Wagner has set the poems of Hughes's Birthday Letters in the context of his marriage to Plath with great delicacy."Times Literary Supplement 8 pages of b/w photographs [via]More editions of Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of Birthday Letters:
The Bed Bookby Emily Arnold McCully, Sylvia PlathISBN 0064431843 (0-06-443184-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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The Bed Bookby Quentin Blake, Sylvia PlathISBN 0571109292 (0-571-10929-2)
Hardcover, Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bed Book'Book summary:Describes various beds that are much more interesting than beds for sleeping, such as a jet-propelled bed, snack bed, pocket-size bed, and bounceable bed. [via]
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The Bell Jarby Sylvia Plath, Frances McCulloughISBN 0060573090 (0-06-057309-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bell Jar'Book summary:Plath was an excellent poet but is known to many for this largely autobiographical novel. The Bell Jar tells the story of a gifted young woman's mental breakdown beginning during a summer internship as a junior editor at a magazine in New York City in the early 1950s. The real Plath committed suicide in 1963 and left behind this scathingly sad, honest and perfectly-written book, which remains one of the best-told tales of a woman's descent into insanity. [via]
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- The Bell Jar: ISBN 0060837020 (0-06-083702-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins - The Bell Jar: ISBN 0061148512 (0-06-114851-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins - The Bell Jar: ISBN 0060174900 (0-06-017490-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - The Bell Jar: ISBN 0899668151 (0-89966-815-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books - The Bell Jar: ISBN 0060930187 (0-06-093018-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins - The Bell Jar: ISBN 0553260081 (0-553-26008-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books - The Bell Jar: ISBN 0553278355 (0-553-27835-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books - The Bell Jar: ISBN 0060133562 (0-06-013356-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - The Bell Jar: ISBN 0375404635 (0-375-40463-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - The Bell Jar: ISBN 0571081789 (0-571-08178-9)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber - The Bell Jar: ISBN 0606022945 (0-606-02294-5)
Hardcover, Demco Media - The Bell Jar: ISBN 0783819870 (0-7838-1987-0)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co - The Bell Jar: ISBN 0060573090 (0-06-057309-0)
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- The Bell Jar: ISBN 0060837020 (0-06-083702-0)
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The Bell Jarby Cliffs Notes Staff, Jeanne InnessISBN 0822002264 (0-8220-0226-4)
Softcover, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bell Jar'Book summary:Plath was an excellent poet but is known to many for this largely autobiographical novel. The Bell Jar tells the story of a gifted young woman's mental breakdown beginning during a summer internship as a junior editor at a magazine in New York City in the early 1950s. The real Plath committed suicide in 1963 and left behind this scathingly sad, honest and perfectly-written book, which remains one of the best-told tales of a woman's descent into insanity. [via]
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Birthday Lettersby Ted HughesISBN 0374525811 (0-374-52581-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Birthday Letters'Book summary:Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters--88 tantalizing responses to Sylvia Plath and the furies she left behind--emerge from an echo chamber of art and memory, rage and representation. In the decades following his wife's 1963 suicide, Hughes kept silent, a stance many have seen as guilty, few as dignified. While an industry grew out of Plath's life and art, and even her afterlife, he continued to compose his own dark, unconfessional verses, and edited her Collected Poems, Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963, and Journals. But Hughes's conservancy (and his sister Olwyn's power as Plath's executrix) laid him open to yet more blame. Biographers and critics found his cuts to her letters self-interested, and decried his destruction of the journals of her final years--undertaken, he insisted, for the sake of their children.
In Birthday Letters we now have Hughes's response to Plath's white-hot mythologizing. Lost happiness intensifies present pain, but so does old despair: "Your ghost," he acknowledges, "inseparable from my shadow." Ranging from accessible short-story-like verses to tightly wound, allusive lyrics, the poems push forward from initial encounters to key moments long after Plath's death. In "Visit," he writes, "I look up--as if to meet your voice / With all its urgent future / that has burst in on me. Then look back / At the book of the printed words. / You are ten years dead. It is only a story. / Your story. My story." These poems are filled with conditionals and might-have-beens, Hughes never letting us forget forces in motion before their seven-year marriage and final separation. When he first sees Plath, she is both scarred (from her earlier suicide attempt) and radiant: "Your eyes / Squeezed in your face, a crush of diamonds, / Incredibly bright, bright as a crush of tears..." But Fate and Plath's father, Otto, will not let them be. In the very next poem, "The Shot," her trajectory is already plotted. Though Hughes is her victim, her real target is her dead father--"the god with the smoking gun."
Of course, "The Shot" and the accusatory "The Dogs Are Eating Your Mother" are an incitement to those who side (as if there is a side!) with Plath. Newsweek has already chalked up the reaction of poet and feminist Robin Morgan to the book: "My teeth began to grind uncontrollably." But Hughes makes it clear that his poems are written for his dead wife and living children, not her acolytes' bloodsport. He has also, of course, written them for himself and the reader. Pieces such as "Epiphany," "The 59th Bear," and "Life After Death" are masterful mixes of memory and image. In "Epiphany," for instance, the young Hughes, walking in London, suddenly spots a man carrying a fox inside his jacket. Offered the cub for a pound, he hesitates, knowing he and Plath couldn't handle the animal--not with a new baby, not in the city. But in an instant, his potent vision extends beyond the animal, perhaps to his and Plath's children:
Already past the kittenish
Other poems are more influenced by Plath's "terrible, hypersensitive fingers," including "The Bee God" and "Dreamers," which is apparently a record of Plath's one encounter with Hughes's mistress: "She fascinated you. Her eyes caressed you, / Melted a weeping glitter at you. / Her German the dark undercurrent / In her Kensington jeweller's elocution / Was your ancestral Black Forest whisper--" This exotic woman, "slightly filthy with erotic mystery," seems a close relation to Plath's own Lady Lazarus, and the poem would be equally powerful without any biographical information. This is the one paradoxical pity of this superb collection. These poems require no prior knowledge--but for better or worse, we possess it. [via]
But the eyes still small,
Round, orphaned-looking, woebegone
As if with weeping. Bereft
Of the blue milk, the toys of feather and fur,
The den life's happy dark. And the huge whisper
Of the constellations
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Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plathby Anne StevensonISBN 0395538467 (0-395-53846-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath'Book summary:"A vivid and, to me, moving portrait of a young woman who, carrying the full mixed cultural load of Americans born in 1932, as well as personal distresses and limitations peculiar to herself, (became) in ten driven years . . . the most ruthlessly original poet of her generation."--John Updike. [via]
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Boulevard of Broken Dreams: The Life, Times, and Legend of James Deanby Paul AlexanderISBN 0452278406 (0-452-27840-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams: The Life, Times, and Legend of James Dean'Book summary:As an icon of art and death, James Dean is surpassed only by Marilyn and Elvis. But until now, no serious biography has looked beyond the Hollywood-manufactured cliche to the volatile polarities, conflicted sexuality, and childhood trauma of the person himself. Here is a revisionist portrait, accompanied by never-before-published photos. [via]
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A Closer Look at Ariel:a Memory of Sylvia Plath: A Memory of Sylvia Plathby Nancy Hunter SteinerISBN 0061278157 (0-06-127815-7)
Hardcover, Harper's Magazine Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Closer Look at Ariel:a Memory of Sylvia Plath: A Memory of Sylvia Plath'Book summary:Brand new book. Purchased from long time Charlotte bookstore(all new books) liquidation sale. While at the sale, I noticed many of the books were being pulled out of dusty boxes at the back of the store. Many of the books had obviously been in shop for many years. This is one of those books. The book and dustjacket are in perfect condition. The unclipped jacket reads $5.00. NOTE: Books ordered before 11AM Eastern Time shipped same day. Your satisfaction is guaranteed. We will instantly refund your money if you are not [via]
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The Collected Poemsby Ted Hughes, Sylvia PlathISBN 1568497032 (1-56849-703-2)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Poems'Book summary:Sylvia Plath died in 1963, and even now her outsize persona threatens to bury her poetry--the numerous biographies and studies often drawing the reader toward anecdote and away from the work. It's a relief to turn to the poems themselves and once more be jolted by their strange beauty, hard-wrought originality, and acetylene anger. "It is a heart, / This holocaust I walk in, / O golden child the world will kill and eat." While the juvenilia and poems written before 1960 that Ted Hughes has included here prefigure Plath's later obsessions, they also enable us to witness her turn from thesaurus-heavy verse to stripped-down art as they gather power through raw simplicity. "The blood jet is poetry. / There is no stopping it," she declares in "Kindness." [via]
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- The Collected Poems: ISBN 0571118380 (0-571-11838-0)
Softcover, Faber and Faber - The Collected Poems: ISBN 0060133694 (0-06-013369-4)
Hardcover, Harper & Row - The Collected Poems: ISBN 0571105734 (0-571-10573-4)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber - The Collected Poems: ISBN 1568497032 (1-56849-703-2)
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- The Collected Poems: ISBN 0571118380 (0-571-11838-0)
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The Collected Poemsby Sylvia PlathISBN 0060909005 (0-06-090900-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Poems'Book summary:Sylvia Plath died in 1963, and even now her outsize persona threatens to bury her poetry--the numerous biographies and studies often drawing the reader toward anecdote and away from the work. It's a relief to turn to the poems themselves and once more be jolted by their strange beauty, hard-wrought originality, and acetylene anger. "It is a heart, / This holocaust I walk in, / O golden child the world will kill and eat." While the juvenilia and poems written before 1960 that Ted Hughes has included here prefigure Plath's later obsessions, they also enable us to witness her turn from thesaurus-heavy verse to stripped-down art as they gather power through raw simplicity. "The blood jet is poetry. / There is no stopping it," she declares in "Kindness." [via]
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The Collected Poems of Anne Stevenson 1955-1995by Anne StevensonISBN 0192832514 (0-19-283251-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Colossusby Sylvia PlathISBN 0375704469 (0-375-70446-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Colossus'Book summary:With this startling, exhilarating book of poems, which was first published in 1960, Sylvia Plath burst into literature with spectacular force. In such classics as "The Beekeeper's Daughter," "The Disquieting Muses," "I Want, I Want," and "Full Fathom Five," she writes about sows and skeletons, fathers and suicides, about the noisy imperatives of life and the chilly hunger for death. Graceful in their craftsmanship, wonderfully original in their imagery, and presenting layer after layer of meaning, the forty poems in The Colossus are early artifacts of genius that still possess the power to move, delight, and shock. [via]
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- The Colossus and Other Poems: ISBN 0394704665 (0-394-70466-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc - The Colossus: ISBN 0571098649 (0-571-09864-9)
Softcover, Faber and Faber Ltd - The Colossus: ISBN 0571081061 (0-571-08106-1)
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- The Colossus and Other Poems: ISBN 0394704665 (0-394-70466-5)
Critical Essays on Sylvia Plathby Linda W. WagnerISBN 0816186820 (0-8161-8682-0)
Hardcover, G K Hall
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Crossing the Waterby Sylvia PlathISBN 0571096514 (0-571-09651-4)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber Ltd
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Crossing the Water: Transitional Poemsby Sylvia PlathISBN 0060907894 (0-06-090789-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crossing the Water: Transitional Poems'Book summary:The Poetry of Sylvia Plath. [via]
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The Death and Life of Sylvia Plathby Ronald HaymanISBN 1559720689 (1-55972-068-9)
Hardcover, Carol Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath'Book summary:[via]Not a conventional biograpy, this book offers an explanation of Sylvia Plath's death in 1963. The author looks back on Plath's life in an attempt to offer an objective account of why she killed herself. It discusses her life with her husband Ted Hughes, who had control of all her copyright works, as she killed herself without making a will. This edition brings the story full circle, as it includes the publication of "Birthday Letters", the death of Ted Hughes and Elaine Feinstein's biography of him, along with Erica Wagner's book "Ariel's Gift", the Al Alvarez autobiography which includes new material and Lucas Meyers's new book "Crow Steered Bergs Appeared".More editions of The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath:
Giving Up : The Last Days of Sylvia Plathby Jillian BeckerISBN 0312315988 (0-312-31598-8)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Haunting of Sylvia Plathby Jacqueline RoseISBN 0674382269 (0-674-38226-9)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Her Husband: Hughes & Plath a Marriageby Diane MiddlebrookISBN 0670031879 (0-670-03187-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Her Husband: Hughes & Plath a Marriage'Book summary:Dianne Middlebrook launches Her Husband: Hughes and Plath: A Marriage, appropriately, with the birth of the poets lives together. Through her retelling of the historic moment of their first meeting, Middlebrook sets the balanced, literate, and brutally honest tone that she maintains throughout the book. According to Middlebrook, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughess first encounter was violent and almost mythic, punctuated with kisses and biting. In 112 days they were married. Together, as Middlebrook shows, they formed a unique literary bond. They remained aggressive intellectual and erotic partners. But, six years later, Hughes left Plath and their two children for another woman. She committed suicide shortly after, while Hughes would go on to a long and successful career as a poet and as Plaths literary executor.
What Middlebrook brings to this story, outside of the almost voyeuristic details gleaned from letters, diaries, interviews, and past biographies, is a scholarly commitment to infuse the reading of Hughes and Plaths marriage with a reading of their poetry and prose. In less capable hands, using literature to reconstruct biography can lead to an undisciplined avoidance of real historical research. But Middlebrook drafts the writings to bolster her understanding of the couple in sophisticated ways that link their private language to their public statements in published works (especially Hughes Birthday Letters). At the same time, Middlebrook remains deeply aware that Hughes and Plath worked to re-construct themselves through their writings, often with conflicting self-portraits, for posterity. She is comfortable letting their contradictions exist side by side.
Her Husband is wonderfully told; it is difficult to imagine how this narrative of the marriage could be surpassed. One only hopes that Middlebrook will have the stamina to amend her own workif necessarywhen Hughess most private papers are made public in 2023. --Patrick OKelley [via]
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Her Husband: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath--A Marriageby Diane MiddlebrookISBN 0142004871 (0-14-200487-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The It-Doesn'T-Matter Suitby Sylvia Plath, Rotraut Susanne BernerISBN 0312141890 (0-312-14189-0)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreamsby Sylvia PlathISBN 1568493851 (1-56849-385-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams'Book summary:"What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.... If I sit still and don't do anything, the world goes on beating like a slack drum, without meaning. We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine."
-- Sylvia Plath, from Notebooks, February 1956Renowned for her poetry, Sylvia Plath was also a brilliant writer of prose. This collection of short stories, essays, and diary excerpts highlights her fierce concentration on craft, the vitality of her intelligence, and the yearnings of her imaginaton. Featuring an introduction by Plath's husband, the late British poet Ted Hughes, these writings also reflect themes and images she would fully realize in her poetry. Jonny Panic and the Bible of Dreams truly showcases the talent and genius of Sylvia Plath.
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Softcover, Harpercollins - Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: ISBN 0060133775 (0-06-013377-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: ISBN 0571111203 (0-571-11120-3)
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The Journals of Sylvia Plathby Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Frances Monson McCulloughISBN 0385493916 (0-385-49391-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Journals of Sylvia Plath'Book summary:No other major contemporary American writer has inspired such intense curiosity about her life as Sylvia Plath. Now the intimate and eloquent personal diaries of the twentieth century's most important female poet reveal for the first time the true story behind "The Bell Jar" and her tragic suicide at thirty. They paint, as well, a revealing portrait of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose stature has seldom been equalled.
"A revelation." The New York Times [via]More editions of The Journals of Sylvia Plath:
Journey to the Red Eye : The Poetry of Sylvia Plath - A Critiqueby Janice MarkeyISBN 0704343169 (0-7043-4316-9)
Softcover, Women's Press, Limited, The
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Letters Home: Correspondence, 1950-1963by Sylvia Plath, Aurelia Schober PlathISBN 0060974915 (0-06-097491-5)
Softcover, Perennial
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The Other Sylvia Plathby Tracy BrainISBN 058232730X (0-582-32730-X)
Softcover, Trans-Atlantic Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Other Sylvia Plath'Book summary:Despite being widely studied on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses the writing of Sylvia Plath has been relatively neglected in relation to the attention given to her life and what drove her to suicide. Tracy Brain aims to remedy this by introducing completely new approaches to Plath's writing, taking the studies away from the familiar concentration to reveal that Plath as a writer was concerned with a much wider range of important cultural and political topics. Unlike most of the existing literary criticism it shifts the focus away from biographical readings and encompasses the full range of Plath's poetry, prose, journals and letters using a variety of critical methods. [via]
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Revising Life: Sylvia Plath's Ariel Poemsby Susan R. Van DyneISBN 080784487X (0-8078-4487-X)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plathby Paul AlexanderISBN 0306812991 (0-306-81299-1)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plathby Alexander PaulISBN 0140102817 (0-14-010281-7)
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Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughesby Janet MalcolmISBN 0679751408 (0-679-75140-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Sylvia Plath: A Biographyby Linda Wagner-MartinISBN 0312023251 (0-312-02325-1)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sylvia Plath : A Biography'Book summary:The first biography of Sylvia Plath to draw on unpublished journals and letters, Sylvia Plath provides a detailed, objective, and illuminating portrait of this talented and tortured woman who is widely recognized as one of America's foremost poets of the 20th century. 20 pages of photos. [via]
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Sylvia Plath Poemsby Sylvia PlathISBN 0571203582 (0-571-20358-2)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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Sylvia Plath: A Critical Studyby Tim KendallISBN 0571192351 (0-571-19235-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sylvia Plath: A Critical Study'Book summary:A fresh and unique look at the work of one of America's most compelling and enigmatic poets[via]
Sylvia Plath was one of the most gifted and innovative poets of the twentieth century, yet serious study of her work has often been hampered by a fierce preoccupation with her life and death.
In this new analysis, Tim Kendall seeks to redress the balance in his detailed and dispassionate examination of her poetry. Taking a roughly chronological structure, he traces the unique nature of Plath's poetic gift, finding-with reference to Letters Home, The Bell Jar, The Journals, and the stories and autobiographical reminiscences-an essential unity in her inspiration, tracing the evolution of recurring themes and at the same time exhibiting her accelerated development from the formal restraint of The Colossus through to the groundbreaking techniques of Ariel. In the process, Kendall shows that Plath was a poet constantly remaking herself, experimenting with different styles, forms, and subject matter, while at the same time firmly reinforcing her rightful place in the canon of world literature.More editions of Sylvia Plath: A Critical Study:
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Sylvia Plath: A Literary Lifeby Linda Wagner-MartinISBN 1403916535 (1-4039-1653-5)
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Sylvia Plath: Collected Poemsby Aylvia PlathISBN 0809590573 (0-8095-9057-3)
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Sylvia Plath: Killing the Angel in the Houseby Elaine ConnellISBN 1873378017 (1-873378-01-7)
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Sylvia Plath: Method and Madnessby Edward ButscherISBN 0971059829 (0-9710598-2-9)
Softcover, Schaffner Pr Inc
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Sylvia Plath: The Poetry of Initiationby Jon RosenblattISBN 0807840866 (0-8078-4086-6)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Sylvia Plath's Selected Poemsby Ted Hughes, Sylvia PlathISBN 0571136788 (0-571-13678-8)
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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962: Transcripts from the Original Manuscripts at Smith Collegeby Sylvia Plath, Karen V. KukilISBN 0385720254 (0-385-72025-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962: Transcripts from the Original Manuscripts at Smith College'Book summary:In the decades that have followed Sylvia Plath's suicide in February 1963, much has been written and speculated about her life, most particularly about her marriage to fellow poet Ted Hughes and her last months spent writing the stark, confessional poems that were to become Ariel. And the myths surrounding Plath have only been intensified by the strong grip her estate--managed by Hughes and his sister, Olwyn--had over the release of her work. Yet Plath kept journals from the age of 11 until her death at 30. Previously only available in a severely bowdlerized edition, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath have now been scrupulously transcribed (with every spelling mistake and grammatical error left intact) and annotated by Karen V. Kukil, supervisor of the Plath collection at Smith College.
The journals show the breathless adolescent obsessed with her burgeoning sexuality, the serious university student competing for the highest grades while engaging in the human merry-go-round of 1950s dating, the graduate year spent at Cambridge University where Plath encountered Ted Hughes. Her version of their relationship (dating is definitely not the appropriate term) is a necessary, and deeply painful, complement to Birthday Letters. On March 10, 1956, Plath writes:
Please let him come, and give me the resilience & guts to make him respect me, be interested, and not to throw myself at him with loudness or hysterical yelling; calmly, gently, easy baby easy. He is probably strutting the backs among crocuses now with seven Scandinavian mistresses. And I sit, spiderlike, waiting, here, home; Penelope weaving webs of Webster, turning spindles of Tourneur. Oh, he is here; my black marauder; oh hungry hungry. I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love: I am here; I wait; and he plays on the banks of the river Cam like a casual faun.
Plath's documentation of the two years the couple spent in the U.S. teaching and writing explicitly highlights the dilemma of the late-1950s woman--still swaddled in expectations of domesticity, yet attempting to forge her own independent professional and personal life. This period also reveals in detail the therapy sessions in which Plath lets loose her antipathy for her mother and her grief at her father's death when she was 8--a contrast to the bright, all-American persona she presented to her mother in the correspondence that was published as Letters Home. The journals also feature some notable omissions. Plath understandably skirted over her breakdown and attempted suicide during the summer of 1953, though she was to anatomize the events minutely in her novel The Bell Jar.Fragments of diaries exist after 1959, which saw the couple's return to England and rural retreat in Devon, the birth of their two children, and their separation in late 1962. An extended piece on the illness and death of an elderly neighbor during this period is particularly affecting and was later turned into the poem "Berck-Plage." Much has been made of the "lost diaries" that Plath kept until her suicide--one simply appears to have vanished, the other Hughes burned after her death. It would seem rapacious to wish for more details of her despair in her final days, however. It is crystallized in the poems that became Ariel, and this is what the voice of her journals ultimately send the reader back to. Sylvia Plath's life has for too long been obfuscated by anecdote, distorting her major contribution to 20th-century literature. As she wrote in "Kindness": "The blood jet is poetry. There is no stopping it." --Catherine Taylor [via]
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Winter Treesby Sylvia PlathISBN 0060133678 (0-06-013367-8)
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Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plathby Kate MosesISBN 1400035007 (1-4000-3500-7)
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Cartas De Cumpleanos/ Birthday Lettersby Ted HughesISBN 8426428177 (84-264-2817-7)
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