Description
In this powerful collection of eighty-eight poems, Ted Hughes revisits his relationship with Sylvia Plath, moving from their first meeting and marriage through the memories, tensions, and lasting consequences of their life together. Written more than three decades after Plath’s death, the poems offer an intimate, searching meditation on love, grief, guilt, memory, and the difficulty of reckoning with a shared past. Blending vivid imagery, emotional directness, and mythic resonance, Hughes’s late work confronts both personal loss and the public mythology surrounding their marriage. The collection stands as his most sustained and revealing poetic response to one of the defining tragedies of modern literary history.
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paperback
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Published Jan 1, 1998
197 pages
ISBN: 0374112967
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Details
First Published
1998
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes.