The Colossus and Other Poems

<p>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 <b>The Colossus</b> are early artifacts of genius that still possess the power to move, delight, and shock.</p> <p>"...<i>The Colossus</i>, which appeared earlier in England to unusual acclaim [was] her first volume to be published in America. Certainly the praise bestowed on her by British critics is warranted; Sylvia Plath is indeed a rare talent and a consummate craftsman...her powerful poems crackle and smolder with energy." - Books Anroad, Guy Owens </p>

Author(s): Sylvia Plath  

ISBN 10: 0375704469
ISBN 13: 9780375704468
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Publication: May 1998
Edition: 1