| The Colossus: And Other Poems Contributor(s): Plath, Sylvia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375704469 ISBN-13: 9780375704468 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1998 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Women Authors - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 98160899 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.1" W x 7.8" (0.20 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |