With this startling, exhilarating book of poems, which was first published in 1960, Sylvia Plath burst into literature with spectacular force. • "[Her poems] have that exquisite, heart-breaking quality about them that has made Sylvia Plath our acknowledged Queen of Sorrows." —Joyce Carol Oates,The New York Times
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.
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Con este sorprendente y estimulante libro de poemas, publicado por primera vez en 1960, Sylvia Plath irrumpió en la literatura con una fuerza espectacular. "[Sus poemas] tienen esa cualidad exquisita y desgarradora que ha convertido a Sylvia Plath en nuestra reconocida Reina de los Dolores". —Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times
En clásicos como "La hija del apicultor", "Las musas inquietantes", "Quiero, quiero" y "Cinco de profundidad", escribe sobre cerdas y esqueletos, padres y suicidios, sobre los ruidosos imperativos de la vida y el hambre helada de la muerte.
Elegantes en su artesanía, maravillosamente originales en sus imágenes y presentando capa tras capa de significado, los cuarenta poemas de El Coloso son artefactos tempranos del genio que aún poseen el poder de conmover, deleitar y conmocionar.