Will I love Ariel?

It took me a long time to pick this book up, but the density, sudden turns of emotion, and allusiveness of Plath's poetry engaged and challenged me.

Sylvia Plath is having a moment, and it’s about time. In recent years, I’ve seen an outpouring of Plath-inspired literature and scholarship, so much of which I’ve devoured and would love to include on this list. But let’s start at the source: the inimitable, the iconic, the patron saint of pissed-off women everywhere.

This is Plath at her most intense and raw. The restored version reinstates her original selection and arrangement before it was infamously edited by Ted Hughes. It’s a work of art and a piece of history.  

One of the first books of poetry I ever read with awe. Actually, I still do. No other poet on the face of the earth, besides Sexton, has ever blown me away with words like Plath. I personally loved this book because it showed me how to write poetry. It is like a kind of bible for me. I have the facsimile of Plath’s manuscript and when I look at her handwriting and the fluidity of certain images I can see what a gifted poet Plath was. It taught me how to express words without telling. It taught me how… show more.