Sylvia Plath Reads

” . . . a young woman who . . . rose from the dead to become, in ten driven years, the best – the most exciting and influential, the most ruthlessly original poet of her generation.” — John Updike
Of the many American poets who reached her zenith in the last few decades, perhaps none looms so large as the legendary Sylvia Plath. Consummately crafted, Plath’s poetry is stormy but luminous, sharp but poignant. This unique, compelling and intriguing recording has been heralded as “a significant tribute to and record of the lyric art that Sylvia Plath left to the literary heritage of America.” (Booklist)

Contents:

The Ghost’s Leavetaking
November Graveyard
On the Plethora of Dryads
The Moon Was a Fat Woman Once
Nocturne
Child’s Park Stones
The Earthenware Head
On the Difficulty of Conjuring up a Dryad
Green Rock–Winthrop Bay
On the Decline of Oracles
The Goring
Ouija
The Beggars of Benidorm Market
Sculptor
The Disquieting Muses
Spinster
Parliament Hill Fields
The Stones
Candles
Mushrooms
Berck-plage
The Surgeon at 2 A.M.