{"product_id":"the-colossus-isbn-9780375704468","title":"The Colossus","description":"\u003cb\u003eWith this startling, exhilarating book of poems, which was first published in 1960, Sylvia Plath burst into literature with spectacular force. • \"[Her poems] have that exquisite, heart-breaking quality about them that has made Sylvia Plath our acknowledged Queen of Sorrows.\" --Joyce Carol Oates,\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn such classics as \"The Beekeeper's 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGraceful in their craftsmanship, wonderfully original in their imagery, and presenting layer after layer of meaning, the forty poems in \u003cb\u003eThe Colossus\u003c\/b\u003e are early artifacts of genius that still possess the power to move, delight, and shock.\"[Her poems] have that exquisite, heart-breaking quality about them that has\u003cbr\u003emade Sylvia Plath our acknowledged Queen of Sorrows, the spokeswoman for our most\u003cbr\u003eprivate, most helpless nightmares. . . . Her poetry is as deathly as it is impeccable;\u003cbr\u003eit enchants us almost as powerfully as it must have enchanted her.\" --Joyce Carol Oates,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sylvia Plath's eye is sharp . . . and her wits responsive to what she sees.\" --Richard Howard,\u003cb\u003ePoetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"...The Colossus, which appeared earlier in England to unusual acclaim [was] her first volume to be published in America. Certainly the praise bestowed on her by British critics is warranted; Sylvia Plath is indeed a rare talent and a consummate craftsman...her powerful poems crackle and smolder with energy.\"--Guy Owen, \u003cb\u003eBooks Abroad\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"She steers clear of feminine charm, deliciousness, gentility, supersensitivity and the act of being a poet. She simply writes good poetry.\"--Al Alvarez, \u003cb\u003eLondon Observer\u003c\/b\u003eSylvia Plath was born in 1932 in Massachusetts. She began publishing poems and stories\u003cbr\u003eas a teenager and by the time she entered Smith College had won several poetry prizes. \u003cbr\u003eShe was a Fulbright Scholar in Cambridge, England, and married British poet Ted Hughes\u003cbr\u003ein London in 1956. The young couple moved to the States, where Plath became an\u003cbr\u003einstructor at Smith College, and had two children. Later, they moved back to England,\u003cbr\u003ewhere Plath continued writing poetry and wrote \u003cb\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/b\u003e, which was first published\u003cbr\u003eunder the pseudonym Victoria Lucas in England in 1963. On February 11, 1963, Plath\u003cbr\u003ecommitted suicide. \u003cb\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/b\u003e was first published under her own name in the United\u003cbr\u003eStates by Harper \u0026amp; Row in 1971, despite the protests of Plath's family. Plath's\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/b\u003e, published posthumously in 1981, won the Pulitzer Prize.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301790437605,"sku":"NP9780375704468","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375704468.jpg?v=1767738752","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-colossus-isbn-9780375704468","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}