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.
- ISBN10 0394704665
- ISBN13 9780394704661
- Publish Date 12 September 1968
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 June 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Vintage Books USA
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 83
- Language English