Crossing the Water

Sylvia Plath author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Published:5th Oct '17

Should be back in stock very soon

Crossing the Water cover

First published posthumously in 1971, Crossing the Water is now reissued, along with Winter Trees, with a Faber typographical cover.

Contains the poems written during the exceptionally creative period of the last years of Sylvia Plath's life. In this book, readers will recognise some of her most celebrated poems - 'Childless Woman', 'Mirror', 'Insomniac' - while discovering those still overlooked, including her radio play Three Women.

Crossing the Water and Winter Trees contain the poems written during the exceptionally creative period of the last years of Sylvia Plath's life. Published posthumously in 1971, they add a startling counterpoint to Ariel, the volume that made her reputation. Readers will recognise some of her most celebrated poems - 'Childless Woman', 'Mirror', 'Insomniac' - while discovering those still overlooked, including her radio play Three Women. These two extraordinary volumes find their place alongside The Colossus and Ariel in the oeuvre of a singular talent.

'Nearly all the poems here have the familiar Plath daring, the same feel of bits of frightened, vibrant, indignant consciousness translated instantly into words and images that blend close, experienced horror and icy, sardonic control.' Alan Brownjohn, New Statesman

ISBN: 9780571330096

Dimensions: 198mm x 131mm x 6mm

Weight: 100g

72 pages

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