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I Am the Arrow: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath in Six Poems

I Am the Arrow: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath in Six Poems

Ruden, Sarah
Plath, Sylvia

Hardcover

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $22.00

ISBN10: 1598538136
ISBN13: 9781598538137
Publisher: Library of America
Published: Mar 25 2025
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
Acclaimed translator Sarah Ruden shares a fresh, myth-busting reading of Sylvia Plath's poems, revealing the full range and towering ambition of a great American poet.

One of our leading interpreters of ancient literature, acclaimed translator Sarah Ruden (the Aeneid) has long had a passion for Sylvia Plath's poetry. In this profound reconsideration of Plath's genius, Ruden argues that Plath is more than a consummate mythmaker; the poet herself takes on the role of the classical hero: striving, suffering, descending to an underworld that threatens meaninglessness and despair, and returning to speak the previously unspoken. For the first time, a writer and a woman becomes that hero.

For Ruden, this achievement, like the deep learning and driving ambition that fueled it, has been overshadowed by the sensational and tragic details of Plath's life, especially her ill-starred marriage to British poet Ted Hughes and her suicide at the age of thirty. Ruden offers a much-needed corrective through close readings of 6 poems

  • Mushrooms
  • You're
  • The Babysitters
  • The Applicant
  • Ariel
  • Edge

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