CWC Book of the Week

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Here is the CWC's Book of the Week pick - showcasing a new acquisition for the Mary Turner Lane Reading and Resource Room. Stop by to grab this one or browse through our ever-expanding collection!

A new edition of Sylvia Plath's Pulitzer Prize-winning Collected Poems. Containing everything that celebrated poet Sylvia Plath wrote after 1956, this is one of the most comprehensive collections of her work. Edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Ted Hughes.

By the time of her death, on 11 February, 1963, Sylvia Plath has 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 she saved, but-after 1956-all she wrote. - Ted Hughes

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