The Colossus and Other Poems by Sylvia Plath

With this startling exhilarating book of poems which was first published in 1960 Sylvia Plath burst into literature with spectacular force. In such classics as The Beekeepers Daughter The Disquieting Muses I Want I Want and Full Fathom Five she writes about sows and skeletons fathers and suicides about the noisy imperatives of life and the chilly hunger for death. Graceful in their craftsmanship wonderfully original in their imagery and presenting layer after layer of meaning the forty poems in