Also published as: The Colossus and Other Poems

Author: Sylvia Plath Year: 1960 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Poetry, Free books, Classic, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: FadedPage Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780571240081 0571240089

With this startling, exhilarating book of poems, which was first published in 1960, Sylvia Plath burst into literature with spectacular force. In 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. Graceful in their craftsmanship, wonderfully original in their imagery, and presenting layer after layer of meaning, the forty poems in The Colossus are early artifacts of genius that still possess the power to move, delight, and shock. Similar books: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath Ariel by Sylvia Plath Letters Home by Sylvia Plath Collected Children's Stories by Sylvia Plath Winter Trees by Sylvia Plath The Bed Book by Sylvia Plath Crossing the Water by Sylvia Plath Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams by Sylvia Plath The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit by Sylvia Plath A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss The Boys In The Boat by Daniel James Brown The Fault in Our Stars by John Green The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand