New Releases by Sylvia Plath

LA OBRA EN PROSA DE SYLVIA PLATH: Relatos, ensayos y diarios Reconocida por su obra poética, Sylvia Plath fue también una brillante escritora de prosa. Esta colección de cuentos, ensayos y fragmentos de sus diarios destaca por su feroz concentración en el arte, la vitalidad de su inteligencia y los anhelos de su imaginación. En estos escritos encontraremos la temprana preocupación de Plath por los problemas derivados de las enfermedades mentales; los complejos procesos de la creatividad y, de manera destacada, una diversidad de temas que tienen la feminidad como eje central. Esta obra es especialmente sugestiva, pues presenta la esencia de sus poemas y de todos los temas recurrentes de su trabajo posterior, y ofrece así una visión significativa de su desarrollo como escritora. Ted Hughes se encargó de la selección de los textos y del epílogo presente en esta edición.

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers who defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. In the Letters, we discover the art of Plath''s correspondence. Most has never before been published, and it is here presented unabridged, without revision, so that she speaks directly in her own words. The letters document Plath''s extraordinary literary development: the genesis of many poems, short and long fiction, and journalism. Leading Plath scholars Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil, editor of The Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962, provide comprehensive footnotes and an extensive index informed by their meticulous research. Alongside a selection of photographs and Plath''s own drawings, they masterfully contextualise what the pages disclose. This later correspondence witnesses Plath and Hughes becoming major, influential contemporary writers, as it happened. Experiences recorded include first books and other publications; teaching; committing to writing full-time; travels; making professional acquaintances; settling in England; starting a family; and buying a house. Throughout, Plath''s voice is completely, uniquely her own.

Pulitzer Prize winner Sylvia Plath’s complete poetic works, edited and introduced by Ted Hughes. By the time of her death on 11, February 1963, Sylvia Plath had written a large bulk of poetry. To my knowledge, she never scrapped any of her poetic efforts. With one or two exceptions, she brought every piece she worked on to some final form acceptable to her, rejecting at most the odd verse, or a false head or a false tail. Her attitude to her verse was artisan-like: if she couldn’t get a table out of the material, she was quite happy to get a chair, or even a toy. The end product for her was not so much a successful poem, as something that had temporarily exhausted her ingenuity. So this book contains not merely what verse she saved, but—after 1956—all she wrote. — Ted Hughes, from the Introduction

"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." — New Statesman "A book that anyone seriously interested in poetry now must have . . . Sylvia Plath’s immense gift is evident throughout."— Guardian The poems in Winter Trees, published posthumously in 1972, form part of the collection from which the Ariel poems were chosen.

"Crossing the Water, a collection of poems written just prior to those in Ariel, . . . is of immense importance in recording [Plath''s] extraordinary development. One senses on every page a voice coming into its own, the chaos of a lifetime at last getting ready to assume its final, triumphant shape." — Kirkus Reviews Sylvia Plath''s extraordinary collection pushes the envelope between dark and light, between our deep passions and desires that are often in tension with our duty to family and society. Water becomes a metaphor for the surface veneer that many of us carry, but Plath explores how easily this surface can be shaken and disturbed.

A timeless collection of stories for younger children. In the eponymous The It-Doesn''t-Matter Suit, little Max Nix is on a quest to find the perfect suit he can go ice-fishing, cow-milking and town-walking in. There''s magic afoot in Mrs Cherry''s Kitchen and children will love to find their perfect Nighty-night little / Turn-out-the-light little Bed! in The Bed Book.

A unique and invaluable collection of the young Sylvia Plath’s drawings from important and formative years in her life: 1955-1957 Sylvia Plath: Drawings is a portfolio of pen-and-ink illustrations created during the transformative period spent at Cambridge University, when Plath met and secretly married poet Ted Hughes, and traveled with him to Paris and Spain on their honeymoon, years before she wrote her seminal work, The Bell Jar. Throughout her life, Sylvia Plath cited art as her deepest source of inspiration. This collection sheds light on these key years in her life, capturing her exquisite observations of the world around her. It includes Plath’s drawings from England, France, Spain, and New England, featuring such subjects as Parisian rooftops, trees, and churches, as well as a portrait Ted Hughes. Sylvia Plath: Drawings includes letters and diary entries that add depth and context to the great poet’s work, as well as an illuminating introduction by her daughter, Frieda Hughes.

Korean edition of The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath. In Korean. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

The electrifying diaries that are essential reading for anyone moved and fascinated by the life and work of one of America''s most acclaimed poets. Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing. Plath once called her journal her “Sargasso,” her repository of imagination, “a litany of dreams, directives, and imperatives,” and in fact these pages contain the germs of most of her work. Plath’s ambitions as a writer were urgent and ultimately all-consuming, requiring of her a heat, a fantastic chaos, even a violence that burned straight through her. The intensity of this struggle is rendered in her journal with an unsparing clarity, revealing both the frequent desperation of her situation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons.

Sylvia Plath was, for both English and American poetry, one of the defining voices of twentieth-century, and one of the most appealing: few other poets have introduced as many new readers to poetry. Though she published just one collection in her lifetime, The Colossus, and a novel, The Bell Jar, it was following her death in 1963 that her work began to garner the wider audience that it deserved. The manuscript that she left behind, Ariel, was published in 1965 under the editorship of her former husband, Ted Hughes, as were two later volumes, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees in 1971, which helped to make Sylvia Plath a household name. Hughes''s careful curation of Plath''s work extended to a Collected Poems and a Selected Poems in the 1980s, which remain in print today and stand testimony to the ''profound respect'' that Frieda Hughes said her father had for her mother''s work. It was not until the publication of a ''restored'' Ariel in 2004 that readers were able to appraise Plath''s own selection and arrangement of her work. This edition of the poems, chosen by the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, offers a fresh selection of Sylvia Plath''s poetry to stand in parallel to the existing editions. Introduced with an inviting preface, the book is essential reading for those new to and already familiar with the work of this most extraordinary poet.

Sylvia Plath is one of the defining voices in twentieth-century poetry. This classic selection of her work, made by her former husband Ted Hughes, provides the perfect introduction to this most influential of poets. The poems are taken from Sylvia Plath''s four collections Ariel , The Colossus , Crossing the Water and Winter Trees, and includes many of her most-celebrated works, such as ''Daddy'', ''Lady Lazarus'' and ''Wuthering Heights''.

Sylvia Plath''s famous collection, as she intended it. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific life but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel. When her husband, Ted Hughes, first brought this collection to life, it garnered worldwide acclaim, though it wasn''t the draft Sylvia had wanted her readers to see. This facsimile edition restores, for the first time, Plath''s original manuscript -- including handwritten notes -- and her own selection and arrangement of poems. This edition also includes in facsimile the complete working drafts of her poem "Ariel," which provide a rare glimpse into the creative process of a beloved writer. This publication introduces a truer version of Plath''s works, and will no doubt alter her legacy forever. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

Sorti du rêve, le mythe consacre la conscience de la séparation et de la perte en même temps que le désir de restaurer le lien au monde et à autrui en poésie, par élargissement des horizons à ceux de l''inconscient, par le ressaisissement du devenir et la mise en perspective de l''existence au sein du visible, mais aussi en cet espace potentiel de la distance, du désir et du deuil à la fois. Le mythe contribue à cette tâche moderne de la poésie, la réactualisation de l''être en sa perception subjective, son réenchantement par réactivation du lien entre macrocosme et microcosme par-delà la dualité scientifique ou philosophique. Le merveilleux consiste en ce lien au monde poussé jusqu''aux horizons de l''imagination tandis que le désenchantement est absolue séparation. L''oeuvre, qui situe le poète au monde (le met au monde), se comporte comme son corps symbolique. Lien au monde et lien au corps sont deux facettes du même travail de la conscience comme "être au monde ou existence" : réactualisation de l''être en sa totalité donc. Cette seconde partie de Poésie et mythe : je, tu, il/elle aux horizons du merveilleux, qui associe en son approche phénoménologie, linguistique et psychanalyse, se veut aboutissement de la réflexion entreprise, à partir des cinq même poètes, dans Poésie et mythe : Réenchantement et deuil du monde et de soi (L''Harmattan, 2000).

''Everything that passes before her eyes travels down from brain to pen with shattering clarity - 1950s New England, pre-co-ed Cambridge, pre-mass tourism Benidorm, where she and Hughes honeymooned, the birth of her son Nicholas in Devon in 1962. These and other passages are so graphic that you look up from the page surprised to find yourself back in the here and now . . . The struggle of self with self makes the Journals compelling and unique.'' John Carey, Sunday Times

Three classic children''s stories, Mrs Cherry''s Kitchen, The Bed Book and The It Doesn''t Matter Suit, collected together in one volume for the first time.

The complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath—essential reading for anyone who has been moved and fascinated by the poet''s life and work. "A genuine literary event.... Plath''s journals contain marvels of discovery." —The New York Times Book Review Sylvia Plath''s journals were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plath''s husband, Ted Hughes. This new edition is an exact and complete transcription of the diaries Plath kept during the last twelve years of her life. Sixty percent of the book is material that has never before been made public, more fully revealing the intensity of the poet''s personal and literary struggles, and providing fresh insight into both her frequent desperation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons.

De son vivant Sylvia Plath a publié de nombreux poèmes dans des revues anglaises ou américaines, mais un seul recueil "Le colosse". Plusieurs centaines de poèmes restaient inédits. Son mari et la soeur de ce dernier établiront trois recueils : "Ariel" en 1965, qui aussitôt la place parmi les grands poètes anglo-saxons contemporains, puis "La traversée" et "Arbres d''hiver" en 1971.