Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
The life of poet Sylvia Plath is traced through a sequence of poems that render creativity, marriage, and emotional instability in layered form. Part biography and part verse performance, the book draws force from language itself.
Work Information
Sylvia Plath’s life is traced through a sequence of poems.
The life of poet Sylvia Plath is traced through a sequence of poems that render creativity, marriage, and emotional instability in layered form. Part biography and part verse performance, the book draws force from language itself. The story follows young people caught between personal choice and pressure from the world around them, with quiet but sustained tension.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Knopf Books for Young Readers
- Published
- 2007-03-13
- Pages
- 272 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 14.5 x 2.44 x 21.62 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780375837999
- ISBN-10
- 037583799X
- Category
- 洋書/Children's Books/Biographies
On a bleak February day in 1963 a young American poet died by her own hand, and passed into a myth that has since imprinted itself on the hearts and minds of millions. She was and is Sylvia Plath and Your Own , Sylvia is a portrait of her life, told in poems. With photos and an extensive list of facts and sources to round out the reading experience, Your Own, Sylvia is a great curriculum companion to Plath's The Bell Jar and Ariel , a welcoming introduction for newcomers, and an unflinching valentine for the devoted.
Stephanie Hemphill lives in Los Angeles, California.
Reviews
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More Plath/Hughes exploitation
"Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath", is a book that should not have been written or published. The poetry itself is lame and lackluster, and doesn't do the subject any credit at all. Also, as a fan of Plath myself, I feel Plath, as well as her late husband, have been exploited in the literary far too much. How do you look into someone's marriage and make a verse story out of it? As the author of this waste of time must be an andmirer of Plath, so am I, and I think enough is enough of the Plath/Hughes melodrama. Let's just respect both poets great works.
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Sylvia. What more can be said of this weeping ...
Sylvia. What more can be said of this weeping soul. So fragile, yet strong. Loving so deeply is cost her to not want life any longer. I have always had a soft spot for the deep passion she felt as a young lady. In her verse , she expresses the world through her eyes. Don't we see? Can we not feel? As if her heartache is all there is to be felt in this huge world. I give this book four stars. I only wish she had been here long enough to continue writing more.
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Astonishing!
First of all, there 200+ poems in this book, so it is an amazing volume. Then there is the fact that each poem is about Sylvia Plath. Even more amazing still is the fact that most of the poems are written from the point of view of someone who knew her, someone almost completely unknown to the poet whose work this is! Stephanie Hemphill is a masterful poet, and this was a labor of love that is also a stroke of genius.
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It was a great book to read but I don't think I'm at ...
It was a great book to read but I don't think I'm at the level to completely understand what the authors message is.
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I love this book
I love this book! Such an interesting perspective. As a teacher, I definitely found this text useful when teaching The Bell Jar.