New Releases by Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath always knew that she wanted to be a writer and she always wrote. She interrogated, both lightly and acutely, what the practice of writing means: how to see afresh whether you''re looking at a thistle or an umbrella; the what it is to want so much to ''live, love and say it well in good sentences ...'', and how she doesn''t think poems ''should be all that chaste'' but is unwilling to write one that includes mention of a toothbrush. The poet Maura Dooley has brought together excerpts from across Plath''s journals, letters, poems and prose as one poet mapping their journey through another poet''s observations and reflections on the writing life.

Das Kultbuch jetzt als eindrucksvoll illustriertes Kunstwerk neu entdecken Als Esther Greenwood ihr Praktikum bei einem New Yorker Modemagazin antritt, scheint es die Schwelle in eine aufregende Zukunft zu sein: Leben in der betörenden Großstadt, waghalsige Männer, hitzige Dinner und Tanzabende. Doch ihr Weltbild gerät ins Wanken, beginnt zu schlingern – und öffnet sich auf eine Dunkelheit, in der ihr alles zunehmend unwirklich erscheint. Vor 60 Jahren erschien die amerikanische Erstausgabe von Die Glasglocke, Sylvia Plaths einzigem Roman – kurz darauf nahm sie sich das Leben. Der Roman avancierte bald zum Kultbuch, beschrieb er doch wie nie zuvor die Zerrissenheit einer jungen Frau und die Dynamik psychischer Erkrankungen. In dieser Ausgabe vereinen sich nun Plath‘ Roman und Beya Rebaïs Illustrationen zu einem Gesamtkunstwerk. Sylvia Plath schrieb mit Die Glasglocke bahnbrechend über den Kampf um den eigenen Platz in der Welt – es begründete ihren Ruhm als feministische Ikone. Auch heute hat dieses Jahrhundertbuch nichts von seiner beklemmenden Faszination verloren, kongenial untermalt von Beya Rebaï.

El nuevo estuche de Poesía Portátil que recoge la selección de siete voces femeninas esenciales de la poesía. Esta recopilación abarca la urgencia lírica de siete poetas: los versos de la rusa Anna Ajmátova, sometida al terror más feroz durante el estalinismo; o la intensidad, el dolor y la belleza de las implacables composiciones de Sylvia Plath; pasando por los textos de Emily Dickinson, desprovistos de adornos y reglas que hablan de la mujer, de la enfermedad y de la muerte; o los mejores versos de las almas torturadas y de extrema sensibilidad de Idea Vilariño. Se recogen, además, los poemas más icónicos de Anne Sexton, pionera en la lírica confesional y en abordar poéticamente muchos temas considerados tabú; los de la incansable viajera Elizabeth Bishop, sencillos, lúcidos y libres; y los de una de las mejores poetas latinoamericanas del siglo XX, Rosario Castellanos, digna heredera de sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Esta edición estuche contiene los volúmenes: He leído que no mueren las almas, de Anna Ajmátova Soy vertical pero preferiría ser horizontal, de Sylvia Plath Morí por la belleza, de Emily Dickinson Ya no será, de Idea Vilariño Mi boca florece como una herida, de Anne Sexton El arte de perder, de Elizabeth Bishop Mujer de buenas intenciones, de Rosario Castellanos

Sylvia Plath''s first Collected Poems was published in 1981. This new volume draws on decades of research and almost doubles the content of that previous edition. The book is in two parts. It begins with the poems Plath composed in the last ten years of her life and on which her reputation is founded, and follows with those poems written in childhood and through her student years. In both sections the editors date, correct and arrange each poem chronologically, drawing on manuscripts, typescripts and related material. Critical notes help document Plath''s extraordinary evolution as a poet, from her childhood compositions through to the blossoming of early ambition and into the molten core that was to shape the poems of her last few years and secure her place in literary history.

"The silence depressed me. It wasn''t the silence of silence. It was my own silence." Esther Greenwood is a beautiful and immensely talented young lady who dreamt of being a great writer. As a college student she travelled from Massachusetts to New York to work on a magazine for a month as a guest editor. While there, she is showered with fancy dinners, and elite networking. Esther knew she should be having the time of her life, but something was wrong, and she felt deadened. Little she knew that this was the beginning of a clinical depression which would take all sense of life out of her. After a visit from a beloved professor, she starts to believe that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Months of treatment later, Esther leaves the mental hospital in time to start college. She now knew that life would be a seesaw of good and bad days, and the bell jar could ring either with sadness or elation, she just needed to hear it jingle and practice what she learnt. The Bell Jar is an intimate, and uplifting narrative written with the expert stroke of the finest writers of the century; meant to make the reader feel supported and hopeful in their journey.

The complete edition of Sylvia Plath''s prose including much unpublished and previously uncollected material, edited by Peter K. Steinberg. The Collected Prose stands alongside the Journals (2000) and the two volume Letters (2017 and 2018) to support a more complete understanding of Sylvia Plath''s ambition and achievement as a writer. Expanding on the selection published as Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (1977), this volume draws together all of Sylvia Plath''s shorter prose, much of which is previously uncollected and unpublished. The volume embraces her experiments with the short story and pieces of non-fiction from the 1940s through to her more polished compositions of the fifties and early sixties, including fragments of fiction as well as her journalism and book reviews. Themes and associations become apparent as the volume offers new, intertextual ways of reading across Plath''s oeuvre, colouring and shading our understanding and appreciation of her extraordinary talent. From reviews of The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume I: 1940-1956 and Volume II: 1956-1963: ''Sylvia Plath was not only a great poet, she also forged some of the best prose of the twentieth century. . . she wrote letters of extraordinary wit and vivacity. Their publication is a major literary event.'' The Times ''These letters are by turns poignant, revelatory, banal, hilarious and self-absorbed, documenting as they do the changing moods, ambitions and intellectual and creative development of one of the twentieth century''s most celebrated poets. '' Evening Standard ''Such was the impact of [Plath''s] exploration of both inner and outer landscapes in staggeringly intense, brutal and lyrical language that her loss to the literary world has been mourned ever since.'' Financial Times

En el 60.o aniversario de su publicación original, la edición ilustrada por Sonia Pulido (Premio Nacional de Ilustración) rinde homenaje a una voz única de las letras norteamericanas. «Respiré profundamente y escuché el antiguo estribillo de mi corazón. Yo soy, yo soy, yo soy». Esta es la historia de una chica que tiene todo lo que una joven puede desear en el Nueva York de los años cincuenta: una carrera prometedora, un pretendiente que estudia medicina y toda una vida por delante. Esther Greenwood ha ganado una beca para trabajar en una revista de moda en la gran ciudad y siente que por fin podrá realizar su sueño de ser escritora. Pero entre cócteles, noches de fiesta y pilas de manuscritos descubre una sociedad que repudia las aspiraciones de las mujeres y su vida empieza a desmoronarse. Esther -alter ego de la autora- se encierra en sí misma, como si estuviera atrapada en una campana de cristal: respirando continuamente el mismo aire viciado y sin posibilidad de escapar. Sesenta años después de su publicación original, La campana de cristal se ha convertido en un clásico moderno, y las palabras de Plath conservan todo su impacto. Esta obra icónica, como dice Aixa de la Cruz en el prólogo, «viaja al presente como una corriente eléctrica y nos interpela de tú a tú, sin mediaciones». La crítica ha dicho: «Sylvia Plath no es un genio cualquiera, su sombra caliente rodea las gargantas de miles de lectores, de aspirantes a poeta y de adolescentes que quieren ser como ella: hermosa, fuerte, brutal [...]. Plath es un mito, sí. Plath es una musa. Plath es una marca que preside nuestras estanterías». Luna Miguel «La novela en clave dolorosamente gráfica de Sylvia Plath, en la que una mujer lucha por su propia identidad ante la presión social, es un texto esencial en el feminismo angloamericano». The Guardian «Mantiene su poder después de cinco décadas». The Telegraph «Sylvia Plath se convirtió para mucha gente en una figura extraliteraria, en una heroína de las contradicciones: alguien que se enfrentó al horror, con el que supo crear algo, pero que también la destruyó». The New Yorker «Esta novela contempla la locura del mundo y el mundo de la locura y nos fuerza a considerar el gran interrogante planteado en toda ficción verdaderamente realista: ¿qué es la realidad y cómo podemos enfrentarnos a ella?» The New York Times Books Review «Una obra de arte casi perfecta». Joyce Carol Oates

»Novellerna spänner från att vara bra till briljanta. I de bästa har Plath en skarp blick för parrelationens strukturer och maktordning.« Betyg: 5 av 5 - Magnus Dahlerus, BTJ »En av det engelska språkets mest firade och kontroversiella efterkrigspoeter.« Margaret Atwood Sylvia Plaths liv, äktenskap och självmord är sedan länge mytologiserade, genom filmer, romaner och idealiserande kommentarer. I första hand är det poesin och romanen Glaskupan som ligger till grund för de idolbilder som gärna ställer sig i vägen för författarskapet. Plaths noveller är på gott och ont mindre kända; deras tematik - psykisk ohälsa, kvinnans plats i patriarkatet, äktenskapet - betraktades som kontroversiell av författarens samtid, och hon hade svårt att få dem publicerade. Här presenteras ett fylligt urval. I svensk översättning av Margareta Tegnemark, med ett nyskrivet förord av litteraturkritikern Björn Kohlström. SYLVIA PLATH föddes i Boston 1932. Efter att ha skrivit en avhandling om Fjodor Dostojevskij kom hon i mitten av 1950-talet till England som Fulbrightstipendiat. Debutboken The Colossus utkom 1960, men det var med den postuma utgåvan av Ariel 1965 som hennes rykte verkligen började växa. Under hela livet led Plath av svåra depressioner. Hon begick självmord 1963.

Johnny Panic och drömbibeln är en novell av Sylvia Plath, först publicerad 1958. Här i översättning av Margareta Tegnemark. SYLVIA PLATH föddes i Boston 1932. Efter att ha skrivit en avhandling om Fjodor Dostojevskij kom hon i mitten av 1950-talet till England som Fulbrightstipendiat. Debutboken The Colossus utkom 1960, men det var med den postuma utgåvan av Ariel 1965 som hennes rykte verkligen började växa. Under hela livet led Plath av svåra depressioner. Hon begick självmord 1963.

År 1953 vinner 19-åriga Esther Greenwood en skrivtävling. Priset är en månads jobb på en modetidning i New York och Esther beskriver träffsäkert den nya värld hon hamnat i. Arbetet, festerna, människorna hon möter.När hon sedan kommer hem går luften ur henne. Hon har inte kommit in på skrivkursen som skulle ta henne bort från det sommarvarma Boston, vidare in i något bättre och ljusare. Efter ett självmordsförsök förs hon till sjukhus. En lång kamp mellan hennes framgångsrika dagsljusjag och hennes ångestfyllda nattjag har börjat.Glaskupan är Sylvia Plaths enda roman. Den gavs ut första gången 1963, då under pseudonymen Victoria Lucas.

En Max Nix és el petit de set germans. Un dia, la seva família rep un paquet misteriós amb un vestit de color mostassa. Tots els germans s’emproven el vestit fins que li arriba el torn al petit Max... Sylvia Plath va escriure El vestit de tant se val durant la lluna de mel, abans de tenir el seu primer fill, en clau d’advertiment per no seguir les opinions alienes sinó les pròpies.

Reconocida por su obra poética, Sylvia Plath fue también una brillante escritora de prosa. Niño de la piedra con delfín forma parte de la colección de cuentos, ensayos y fragmentos de sus diarios, que destacan por su feroz concentración en el arte, la vitalidad de su inteligencia y los anhelos de su imaginación. En estos escritos se aprecia la temprana preocupación de Plath por los problemas derivados de las enfermedades mentales; los complejos procesos de la creatividad y, de manera destacada, una diversidad de temas que tienen la feminidad como eje central.

Sylvia Plath, una de las grandes poetas del siglo XX, llega a la colección Poesía Portátil. Sylvia Plath es una de las poetas más admiradas del siglo XX. Sus versos, que a lo largo de los años han ido cobrando protagonismo especialmente después de que se quitara la vida a los treinta años, son un intento de expresar su desesperación y su obsesión por la muerte. Sus poemas se pueden considerar en gran parte autobiográficos y exploran su angustia mental, su problemático matrimonio con el también poeta Ted Hughes y los conflictos sin resolver con sus padres, así como la visión que tenía de ella misma. Tanto ella como su obra se ha ido perfilando hasta el día de hoy como uno de los grandes iconos del feminismo, y su poesía -en especial El coloso y el póstumo Ariel-, como objetos adorados, valiosas pruebas de que Sylvia Plath fue una de las grandes figuras de la literatura del pasado siglo. Después de más de cincuenta años de ser escritos, sus versos todavía contienen toda su intensidad, todo su dolor y toda su belleza. «Entonces el cielo y yo conversamos abiertamente. Y seguro que seré más útil cuando al fin me tienda para siempre: Entonces quizá los árboles me toquen por una vez Y las flores, finalmente, tengan tiempo para mí.» ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Sylvia Plath, one of the great poets of the twentieth century, joins the “Portable Poetry” collection. Sylvia Plath is one of the most admired poets of the twentieth century. Her verses, which over the years have gained notoriety especially after she took her own life at age thirty, are an attempt to express her despair and obsession with death. Her poems can be considered largely autobiographical and they express her mental anguish, her difficult marriage to poet Ted Hughes, and unresolved conflicts with her parents, as well as how she saw herself. Both she and her work have been emerging as great icons of feminism, and her poetry as idolized objects; this is only proof that Sylvia Plath was one of the great literary figures of the last century. After more than fifty years since they were written, her verses still embody all their intensity, all their pain, and all their beauty. “Then heaven and I had a frank conversation. I will surely be more useful when I finally lay down forever:”

Previously existing only in the Sylvia Plath archives, a story by literary legend Sylvia Plath stands on its own and is remarkable for its symbolic, allegorical approach to a young woman’s rebellion against convention and forceful taking control of her own life. Written while Sylvia Plath was a student at Smith College in 1952, Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom tells the story of a young woman’s fateful train journey. Lips the color of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like “guilt, and guilt, and guilt”: these are just some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the ninth kingdom. “But what is the ninth kingdom?” she asks a kind-seeming lady in her carriage. “It is the kingdom of the frozen will,” comes the reply. “There is no going back.” Sylvia Plath’s strange, dark tale of female agency and independence, written not long after she herself left home, grapples with mortality in motion.

“Engaging and revealing, The Letters of Sylvia Plath offers a captivating look into the life and inner thinking of one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.” — Paul Alexander, Washington Post The second volume in the definitive, complete collection of the letters of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Sylvia Plath, from the early years of her marriage to Ted Hughes to the final days leading to her suicide in 1963, many never before seen. One of the most talented and beloved poets, Sylvia Plath continues to fascinate and inspire the modern literary imagination. The tragedy of her untimely death at age thirty, almost fifty-five years ago, has left much unknown about her creative and personal life. In this remarkable second volume of the iconic poet and writer’s collected letters, the full range of Plath’s ambitions, talents, fears, and perspective is made visible through her own powerful words. As engaging as they are revealing, these remarkable letters cover the years from 1957 to 1963. They detail the last six tumultuous and prolific years of her life, covering her marriage to Ted Hughes, the births of her children Frieda and Nicholas, her early success, including the publication of the classic The Bell Jar, and her ongoing struggle with depression. The first compendium of its kind to include all of Plath’s letters from this period, The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 2 offers an intimate portrait of the writing life and mind of one of the most celebrated poets in literary history.

La poesia de Plath en una edició bilingüe traduïda i prologada per Montserrat Abelló. Sylvia Plath és una de les poetes més admirades i llegides i una icona del feminisme modern. El pas dels anys no ha fet més que augmentar el reconeixement de la seva obra. El volum Sóc vertical recull els poemes escrits per Sylvia Plath durant els seus anys de plenitud, del 1960 fins al 1963. En total, inclo cent dos poemes; tots els que es conserven escrits per la poeta durant l''època més fructífera, poc abans del suïcidi als trenta anys. La seva obra poètica va rebre el premi Pulitzer pòstumament. La traducció de Montserrat Abelló es manté fidel a l''original anglès, sense perdre ni un bri de la contundència sonora. Hi emergeix una veu poètica lliure, d''una bellesa pertorbadora.

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers that defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. Her vivid, daring and complex poetry continues to captivate new generations of readers and writers. In the Letters, we discover the art of Plath''s correspondence. Most has never before been published, and it is here presented unabridged, without revision, so that she speaks directly in her own words. Refreshingly candid and offering intimate details of her personal life, Plath is playful, too, entertaining a wide range of addressees, including family, friends and professional contacts, with inimitable wit and verve. The letters document Plath''s extraordinary literary development: the genesis of many poems, short and long fiction, and journalism. Her endeavour to publish in a variety of genres had mixed receptions, but she was never dissuaded. Through acceptance of her work, and rejection, Plath strove to stay true to her creative vision. Well-read and curious, she simultaneously offers a fascinating commentary on contemporary culture. Leading Plath scholar Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil, editor of The Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962, provide comprehensive footnotes and an extensive index informed by their meticulous research. Alongside a selection of photographs and Plath''s own drawings, they masterfully contextualise what the pages disclose. This selection of later correspondence witnesses Plath and Hughes becoming major, influential contemporary writers, as it happened. Experiences recorded include first books and other publications; teaching; committing to writing full-time; travels; making professional acquaintances; settling in England; building a family; and buying a house. Throughout, Plath''s voice is completely, uniquely her own.

A major literary event: the first volume in the definitive, complete collection of the letters of Sylvia Plath—most never before seen. One of the most beloved poets of the modern age, Sylvia Plath continues to inspire and fascinate the literary world. While her renown as one of the twentieth century’s most influential poets is beyond dispute, Plath was also one of its most captivating correspondents. The Letters of Sylvia Plath is the breathtaking compendium of this prolific writer’s correspondence with more than 120 people, including family, friends, contemporaries, and colleagues. The Letters of Sylvia Plath includes her correspondence from her years at Smith, her summer editorial internship in New York City, her time at Cambridge, her experiences touring Europe, and the early days of her marriage to Ted Hughes in 1956. Most of the letters are previously unseen, including sixteen letters written by Plath to Hughes when they were apart after their honeymoon. This magnificent compendium also includes twenty-seven of Plath’s own elegant line drawings taken from the letters she sent to her friends and family, as well as twenty-two previously unpublished photographs. This remarkable, collected edition of Plath’s letters is a work of immense scholarship and care, presenting a comprehensive and historically accurate text of the known and extant letters that she wrote. Intimate and revealing, this masterful compilation offers fans and scholars generous and unprecedented insight into the life of one of our most significant poets.

Pulitzer Prize winner Sylvia Plath''s complete poetic works, edited and introduced by Ted Hughes. By the time of her death on 11, February 1963, Sylvia Plath had written a large bulk of poetry. To my knowledge, she never scrapped any of her poetic efforts. With one or two exceptions, she brought every piece she worked on to some final form acceptable to her, rejecting at most the odd verse, or a false head or a false tail. Her attitude to her verse was artisan-like: if she couldn''t get a table out of the material, she was quite happy to get a chair, or even a toy. The end product for her was not so much a successful poem, as something that had temporarily exhausted her ingenuity. So this book contains not merely what verse she saved, but--after 1956--all she wrote.--Ted Hughes, from the Introduction

Sinds haar zelfverkozen dood in 1963 is er veel geschreven en gezegd over de fascinerende Sylvia Plath. Vooral over Plaths huwelijk met dichter Ted Hughes en over de laatste maanden van haar leven. Dan schrijft ze immers de harde, naakte gedichten die, samengevoegd tot de bundel Ariel, haar naam postuum vestigen. Plaths dagboeken bieden een aangrijpend en intiem beeld van haar korte maar intense leven. Ze tonen de gretige tiener die haar seksualiteit ontdekt en de serieuze studente die, ondergedompeld in een wild liefdesleven, worstelt om de hoogste cijfers te halen. Ze beschrijven een definiërend jaar in Cambridge, waar Plath Ted Hughes ontmoet, en hun huwelijk enkele maanden later. In de jaren vijftig werd een vrouw geacht zich uitsluitend met het huishouden bezig te houden. Plath moet vechten om iets van haar ambities waar te maken. In 1962 loopt het huwelijk op de klippen, en doet de fatale wanhoop haar intrede. Sylvia Plath pleegde in 1963 zelfmoord. Haar gedichten en haar roman The Bell Jar worden nog steeds gretig gelezen.

A timeless collection of stories for younger children. In the eponymous The It-Doesn''t-Matter Suit, little Max Nix is on a quest to find the perfect suit he can go ice-fishing, cow-milking and town-walking in. There''s magic afoot in Mrs Cherry''s Kitchen and children will love to find their perfect Nighty-night little / Turn-out-the-light little Bed! in The Bed Book.

A unique and invaluable collection of the young Sylvia Plath’s drawings from important and formative years in her life: 1955-1957 Sylvia Plath: Drawings is a portfolio of pen-and-ink illustrations created during the transformative period spent at Cambridge University, when Plath met and secretly married poet Ted Hughes, and traveled with him to Paris and Spain on their honeymoon, years before she wrote her seminal work, The Bell Jar. Throughout her life, Sylvia Plath cited art as her deepest source of inspiration. This collection sheds light on these key years in her life, capturing her exquisite observations of the world around her. It includes Plath’s drawings from England, France, Spain, and New England, featuring such subjects as Parisian rooftops, trees, and churches, as well as a portrait Ted Hughes. Sylvia Plath: Drawings includes letters and diary entries that add depth and context to the great poet’s work, as well as an illuminating introduction by her daughter, Frieda Hughes.

Sylvia Plath is one of the defining voices in twentieth-century poetry. This classic selection of her work, made by her former husband Ted Hughes, provides the perfect introduction to this most influential of poets. The poems are taken from Sylvia Plath''s four collections Ariel , The Colossus , Crossing the Water and Winter Trees, and includes many of her most-celebrated works, such as ''Daddy'', ''Lady Lazarus'' and ''Wuthering Heights''.

The complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath—essential reading for anyone who has been moved and fascinated by the poet''s life and work. "A genuine literary event.... Plath''s journals contain marvels of discovery." —The New York Times Book Review Sylvia Plath''s journals were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plath''s husband, Ted Hughes. This new edition is an exact and complete transcription of the diaries Plath kept during the last twelve years of her life. Sixty percent of the book is material that has never before been made public, more fully revealing the intensity of the poet''s personal and literary struggles, and providing fresh insight into both her frequent desperation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons.

''Everything that passes before her eyes travels down from brain to pen with shattering clarity - 1950s New England, pre-co-ed Cambridge, pre-mass tourism Benidorm, where she and Hughes honeymooned, the birth of her son Nicholas in Devon in 1962. These and other passages are so graphic that you look up from the page surprised to find yourself back in the here and now . . . The struggle of self with self makes the Journals compelling and unique.'' John Carey, Sunday Times