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Ariel (1965) contains many of Sylvia Plath's best known poems written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963. The first of four collections to be published by Faber & Faber, it is the volume on which her reputation as one of the most original, daring and gifted poets of the twentieth century rests. What a thrill - My thumb instead of an onion. The top quite gone Except for a sort of hinge - Cut.

Dibujos presenta una faceta poco conocida de la genial poeta Sylvia Plath. A lo largo de toda su vida, el arte fue una profunda fuente de inspiración, como muestran las ilustraciones a pluma y tinta recogidas en este libro.Esta obra arroja luz sobre esos años felices, cuando Plath conocio y se caso secretamente con Ted Hughes, y juntos viajaron a Paris y a España en su luna de miel, años antes de que ella escribiera su novela La campana de cristal. Incluye dibujos de Inglaterra, Francia, España y Estados Unidos, en los que captura sus exquisitas observaciones del mundo.Sus dibujos van acompañados de cartas y un diario de notas que añaden profundidad y contexto a la obra de la gran poeta, asi como una introduccion escrita por su hija, Frieda Hughes.

La presente edición bilingue de su Poesía completa es la primera que se realiza en el ámbito hispanoamericano.Al acercarnos a la poesía de Sylvia Plath, debemos tener muy presente que, si bien el hecho de conocer los detalles de su vida nos ayuda a comprender y a "traducir" sus poemas, ello no explica, en modo alguno, el poderío de éstos. En Plath es fundamental separar sus logros estéticos de su biografía, de la cual no dependen ni en la forma ni en el fondo. Podemos abordar esta Poesía completa como una mera "confesión" de su autora, pero, al hacerlo, estamos prejuzgando lo que leemos y, peor aún, nos estamos perdiendo otros significados mucho más relevantes y reveladores. Porque Plath, como Trakl o Pizarnik, no debe en absoluto su fama al hecho de haberse quitado la vida sino a que en su obra los acontecimientos están absorbidos, transfigurados por la función universalizadora del mito, y a que fue una poeta cuya imaginación, inteligencia, lenguaje, oficio y apertura al inconsciente alcanzaron un extraordinario grado de desarrollo. Virtudes que tan sólo podemos hallar en los grandes creadores. XOÁN ABELEIRA

Esther Greenwood is at college and is fighting two battles, one against her own desire for perfection in all things - grades, boyfriend, looks, career - and the other against remorseless mental illness. As her depression deepens she finds herself encased in it, bell-jarred away from the rest of the world. This is the story of her journey back into reality. Highly readable, witty and disturbing, The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel and was originally published under a pseudonym in 1963. What it has to say about what women expect of themselves, and what society expects of women, is as sharply relevant today as it has always been. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

Sylvia Plath (1932-63) possessed one of the most commanding voices in twentieth-century poetry. She published only one volume of verse, "The Colossus", during her life and a single novel, "The Bell Jar". After her death "Winter Trees", "Crossing the Water" and, most notably, the remarkable poems in "Ariel", brought her posthumous fame. Sylvia Plath (1932-63) possessed one of the most commanding voices in twentieth-century poetry. She published only one volume of verse, "The Colossus", during her life and a single novel, "The Bell Jar". After her death "Winter Trees", "Crossing the Water" and, most notably, the remarkable poems in "Ariel", brought her both posthumous fame and a readership that continues today. Subsequently, her "Collected Poems" won the Pulitzer Prize and, on publication, her Journals provided an insight into the life that was the basis for her work. Other volumes in this series, include: "Auden", "Betjemen", "Eliot", "Hughes", and "Yeats".

Upon the publication of her posthumous volume of poetry, Ariel, in the mid-1960s, the author became a household name. Readers may be surprised to learn that the draft of Ariel left behind by her when she died in 1963 is different from the volume of poetry eventually published to worldwide acclaim. This facsimile edition restores, for the first time, the selection and arrangement of the poems as she left them at the point of her death. In addition to the facsimile pages of her manuscript, this edition also includes in facsimile the complete working drafts of the title poem 'Ariel', in order to offer a sense of her creative process, as well as notes the author made for the BBC about some of the manuscript's poems. In her insightful foreword to this volume the author's daughter explains the reasons for the differences between the previously published edition of Ariel as edited by her father, and her mother's original version published here. With this publication, the author's legacy and vision will be re-evaluated in the light of her original working draft. Sylvia Plath churned out her final poems at the remarkable rate of two or three a day, and Robert Lowell describes them as written by 'hardly a person at all ... but one of those super-real, hypnotic, great classical heroines.' Even more remarkable, she wrote them during one of the coldest, snowiest winters (1962-63) Londoners have ever known. Snowbound, without central heating, she and her two children spent much of their time sniffling, coughing, or running temperatures (In 'Fever 103°' she writes, 'I have been flickering, off, on, off on. / The sheets grow heavy as a lecher's kiss.'). Pipes froze, lights failed, and candles were unobtainable. As if these physical privations weren't enough, Plath was out in the cold in another sense--her husband, Ted Hughes, had left her for another woman earlier that year. Despite all this (or perhaps because of it), the Ariel poems dazzle with their lyricism, their surprising and vivid imagery, and their wit. Rather than confining herself to her bleak surroundings, Plath draws from a wide array of experience. In 'Berck-Plage,' for instance, clouds are 'electrifyingly-coloured sherbets, scooped from the freeze.' In 'The Night Dances,' the poet st

Única obra narrativa de la gran poeta norteamericana, ésta es una novela sobre la adolescencia, un retrato de la artista adolescente y de las dificultades que debe salvar para encontrar un lugar propio en un mundo plagado de hostilidades.

Sylvia Plath (Boston 1932 - Londres 1963) és una de les figures indiscutibles de la poesia anglesa del segle XX. Sóc vertical recull tots els poemes escrits per Plath entre el 1960 i el 1963, els anys de maxima plenitud literaria. Al costat dels llibres Arbres d'hivern i Travessant l'aigua, presentem l'edicio restituida d'Ariel, publicat postumament pel seu marit Ted Hugues l'any 1965 i reeditat quaranta anys mes tard per la seva filla tal com l'havia deixat l'autora sobre la seva taula abans de llevar-se la vida. Montserrat Abello ha incorporat Sylvia Plath a la nostra tradicio literaria amb una traduccio impecable que capta amb ritme i rigor la imaginacio meticulosa i angoixada de l'autora d'Ariel.

Única obra narrativa de la gran poeta norteamericana, ésta es una novela sobre la adolescencia, un retrato de la artista adolescente y de las dificultades que debe salvar para encontrar un lugar propio en un mundo plagado de hostilidades .

Les lèvres couleur sang, le soleil d'un orange inédit, les roues d'un train qui semblent dire "ta faute, ta faute, ta faute" : voilà quelques exemples des choses que Mary Ventura co

Sylvia Plath nació en Jamaica Plain, Massachussets y puso fin a su vida en Londres. Publicó en vida una novela, The Bell Jar (La campana de cristal) , y un libro de poemas, The Colossus and Other Poems , peo sus obras más destacadas aparecieron póstumamente, publicadas por su ex-marido, el también poeta Ted Hughes. Su Correspondencia y sus Diarios , parcialmente publicados también póstumamente, han enriquecido la imagen de esta poeta, a lo que contribuyó también, poco antes de morir, Hughes, con su libro Birthday Letters ( Cartas de cumpleaños ). Árboles en invierno comprende dos partes; la segunda, Three Women es un diálogo poemático entre tres voces femeninas - tres mujeres en su maternidad -, estrenado en la BBC unos meses antes de la muerte de su autora. Intensa y desgarrada, la poesía de Sylvia Plath no ha cesado de interesar a lectoras y lectores desde su muerte, y es una referencia obligada en el panorama lírico norteamericano de la segunda mitad del siglo XX.

Plath's best-known collection of poems which "established her reputation with its courageous and controlled treatment of extreme and painful states of mind".

This was the only book of Plath's poetry published in her lifetime. These early poems are formal in structure and meticulously crafted.