This posthumously published Collected Poems is a remaking of Anne Stevenson's earlier Poems 1955-2005 (2005), expanded to include poems from her final three books, Stone Milk (2007), Astonishment (2012) and Completing the Circle (2020), drawing on 16 collections.
Represents a view of her work Elizabeth Bishop herself would have recognised and approved. A chronology and a set of maps serve as practical guides to the poet's life and travels.
This is a retrospective by a British/American poet, winner of the Northern Rock Foundation Writer Award, Britain's biggest literary prize (worth GBP60,000).
Sylvia Plath, geboren 1932 in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. 1952 veröffentlichte sie ihre erste preisgekrönte Erzählung »Sonntag bei den Mintons«. 1953 Suicidversuch. 1956 Heirat mit dem Lyriker Ted Hughes. 1960 und 1962 Geburt ihrer Kinder. 1963 erschien ihr Roman »Die Glasglocke«. 1963 Freitod in London. In der FVA erschienen die Erzählbände »Zungen aus Stein« (FVA 1989/2012) und »Die Bibel der Träume« (FVA 1987/2012) sowie Sylvia Plath »Tagebücher« (FVA 1997) in der Übersetzung von Alissa Walser.
Though Plath has become a modern legendary figure, this is the first fully informed account of her life as a poet. With new material of all sorts, Stevenson recounts the struggle between fantasy and reality that blessed the artist but placed a curse on the woman. Photos.