Collected Poems
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About the BookCollected Poem.
Sylvia
Plath died in 1963, and even now her outsize persona threatens to bury
her poetry--the numerous biographies and studies often drawing the
reader toward anecdote and away from the work. It's a relief to turn to
the poems themselves and once more be jolted by their strange beauty,
hard-wrought originality, and acetylene anger. "It is a heart, / This
holocaust...
