“Plath does something akin to Picasso in his early Cubist drawings,” Clark writes, “.a calculated, radical gesture born of impatience with a tradition that had run dry. Just two years before her death, Plath jettisoned worn-out forms for a bolder register, embracing internal rhyme, expressive line breaks, and autobiography: The circus animals of her imagination were liberated from their cages, pacing and stalking the masculinist canon. 1 It was selected for the New York Times Book Review ' s '10 Best Books of 2021' list 2 and. The book has four 'positive' reviews, thirteen 'rave' reviews, and three 'mixed' reviews, according to review aggregator Book Marks. Clark also recasts Hughes as both muse and monster, a generous reader with a cruel streak.īut Red Comet is fundamentally a work of criticism, exploring the technical leaps in Ariel, the breakthrough collection that made Plath’s name. She is the author of two award-winning books on post-war poetry, The Grief of Influence- Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes and The Ulster Renaissance- Poetry in Belfast 1962-1972. Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath is a 2020 book by Heather Clark that examines Sylvia Plath. Here, The Bell Jar is understood not as a teen cult work (“When we see a female character reading The Bell Jar in a movie, we know she will make trouble”) but as a declaration of independence from postwar America. Her work has appeared in publications including Harvard Review, Times Literary Supplement, Time, AirMail, and LitHub, and she recently served as the scholarly consultant for the BBC documentary.
In it, Plath described her conservative upbringing in. Suicide attempts take a backseat to fiercely focused genius. It was first published in Punch, two months after her death, and was later included in the collection Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams. From her youth in suburban Boston to her eminent academic accomplishments and stormy relationship with fellow poet Ted Hughes, Red Comet illuminates Plath’s life in unprecedented detail.
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