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| Genre/Form: | American poetry |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sylvia Plath; Diane Wood Middlebrook |
| ISBN: | 0375404643 9780375404641 |
| OCLC Number: | 39210087 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | 255 p. ; 17 cm. |
| Contents: | Channel Crossing -- Ode for Ted -- Song for a Summer's Day -- Two Sisters of Persephone -- Faun -- Letter to a Purist -- Alicante Lullaby -- Wreath for a Bridal -- Fiesta Melons -- Spider -- Spinster -- Black Rook in Rainy Weather -- Hardcastle Crags -- The Lady and the Earthenware Head -- All the Dead Dears -- The Disquieting Muses -- Ouija -- On the Decline of Oracles -- Snakecharmer -- Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor -- The Bull of Bendylaw -- Suicide off Egg Rock -- Metaphors -- Electra on Azlea Path -- The Beekeeper's Daughter -- Man in Black -- The Colossus -- Poem for a Birthday -- Mushrooms -- You're The Hanging Man -- Stillborn -- Candles -- Zoo Keeper's Wife -- Face Lift -- Morning Song -- Barren Women -- Heavy Women -- In Plaster -- Tulips -- I am Vertical -- Blackberrying -- The Moon and the Yew Tree -- Mirror. Three Women: A Poem for Tree Voices -- Little Fugue -- An Appearance -- Crossing the Water -- Among the Narcissi -- Pheasant -- Elm -- The Rabbit Catcher -- Event -- The Other -- Words heard, by accident, over the phone -- Poppies in July -- Burning the Letters -- For a Fatherless Son -- A Birthday Present -- The Detective -- The Courage of Shutting-Up -- The Bee Meeting -- The Arrival of the Bee Box -- Stings -- The Swarm -- Wintering -- The Applicant -- Daddy -- Medusa -- Fever 103 -- Amnesiac -- Cut -- By Candlelight -- Ariel -- Poppies in October -- Nick and the Candlestick -- Lady Lazarus -- Death & Co. -- Winter Trees -- Childless Woman -- Sheep in Fog -- The Munich Mannequins -- Totem -- Child -- Paralytic -- Gigolo -- Mystic -- Kindness -- Words -- Contusion -- Balloons -- Edge. |
| Series Title: | Everyman's library pocket poets. |
| Other Titles: | Poems. |
| Responsibility: | selected by Diane Wood Middlebrook. |
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Abstract:
An anthology by a poet who committed suicide. In Lady Lazarus, she wrote: "Dying / Is an art, like everything else. / I do it exceptionally well. / I do it so it feels like hell. / I do it so it feels real. / I guess you could say I've a call." A representative selection of verse by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who left in the wake of her personal tragedy a legacy of poems that combine terrifying intensity and dazzling artistry. With their brutally frank self-exposure and emotional immediacy, Plath's poems, from "Lady Lazarus" to "Daddy", have had an enduring influence on contemporary poetry.
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