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Red Comet: The Short Life And Blazing Art Of Sylvia Plath - 9780307951267
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With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials--including unpublished letters and manuscripts; court, police, and psychiatric records; and new interviews--Heather Clark brings to life the brilliant daughter of Wellesley, Massachusetts who had poetic ambition from a very young age and was an accomplished, published writer of poems and stories even before she became a star English student at Smith College in the early 1950s. Determined not to read Plath's work as if her every act, from childhood on, was a harbinger of her tragic fate, Clark evokes a culture in transition, in the shadow of the atom bomb and the Holocaust, as she explores Plath's world: her early relationships and determination not to become a conventional woman and wife; her conflicted ties to her well-meaning, widowed mother; her troubles at the hands of an unenlightened mental-health industry; her Cambridge years and thunderclap meeting with Ted Hughes, a marriage of true minds that would change the course of poetry in English; and much more. Clark's clear-eyed portraits of Hughes, his lover Assia Wevill, and other demonized players in the arena of Plath's suicide promotes a deeper understanding of her final days, with their outpouring of first-rate poems. Along with illuminating readings of the poems themselves, Clark's meticulous, compassionate research brings us closer than ever to the spirited woman and visionary artist who blazed a trail that still lights the way for women poets the world over.
- | Author: Heather Clark
- | Publisher: Vintage
- | Publication Date: September 28, 2021
- | Number of Pages: 1184 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 030795126X
- | ISBN-13: 9780307951267
- Author:
- Heather Clark
- Publisher:
- Vintage
- Publication Date:
- September 28, 2021
- Number of pages:
- 1184 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 030795126X
- ISBN-13:
- 9780307951267