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Written & audio book performed by Sylvia Plath - Unabridged Poems - 1 CASSETTE - 50 minutes

Publisher, Harper Audio / Caedmon Audio (April 2000)

Of the many American poets who reached her zenith in the last few decades, perhaps none looms so large as the legendary Sylvia Plath. Consummately crafted, Plath's poetry is stormy but luminous, sharp but poignant. This unique, compelling and intriguing recording has been heralded as "a significant tribute to and record of the lyric art that Sylvia Plath left to the literary heritage of America." (Booklist)

CONTENTS:• The Ghost's Leavetaking
• November Graveyard
• On the Plethora of Dryads
• The Moon Was a Fat Woman Once
• Nocturne
• Child's Park Stones
• The Earthenware Head
• On the Difficulty of Conjuring up a Dryad
• Green Rock—Winthrop Bay
• On the Decline of Oracles
• The Goring
• Ouija
• The Beggars of Benidorm Market
• Sculptor
• The Disquieting Muses
• Spinster
• Parliament Hill Fields
• The Stones
• Candles
• Mushrooms
• Berck-plage
• The Surgeon at 2 A.M.

About the Poet: Pulitzer prize winning author Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) has been acclaimed as a figure of major importance in American poetry. Her work includes the volumes Ariel, Water and Winter Trees, as well as the novel, The Bell Jar.Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 in Boston, and her work reflected both her New England heritage and the landscape of England where she later lived with her husband, the poet Ted Hughes. What Hughes called "her crackling verbal energy" is apparent in her poems' biting precision of word and image. Gestures in her life of defiance and ecstasy, love or despair, are re-imagined in brilliant archetypal patterns. In the year before her suicide, she was writing the poems that secured her fame--poems about her children and her failed marriage, about death and her imagination. Robert Lowell once called them her "appalling and triumphant fulfillment."