Sunday, July 12, 2015

The Birthday Letters

Ted Hughes threnody for his former wife Sylvia Plath published 35 years after her death by her own hand. A case of can't live with her, can't live without her; mental illness made life with her difficult. The poems are highly personal and often difficult of access. Bought this book when it came out in 1998 just six months before the author's death and just now reading it. Hughes was harshly judged as an unsympathetic serial lover until these poems saw the light of day.

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