HarperCollins Reissues 4 Sylvia Plath Books

HarperCollins recently reissued four Sylvia Plath books with new covers on their Harper Perennial Modern Classics imprint.

The four books are: Ariel, Ariel: The Restored Edition, The Collected Poems, and Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams.

Ariel, (HarperCollins | Amazon) This is the first full reissue & repackaging of Plath's most famous collection of poems since 1999. It's also the first time, ever, in the US that Plath's Ariel is published with non-white/cream cover.

Ariel: The Restored Edition, (HarperCollins | Amazon) This is the first repackaging of Ariel: The Restored Edition since 2005, when it first appeared in paperback. I love, love, love the note on the back of the book: "Sylvia Plath's famous collection, as she intended it." Perfect.

The Collected Poems, (HarperCollins | Amazon) This is the first repackaging of both The Collected Poems and Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams since 2008.

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, (HarperCollins | Amazon)

Books can be ordered from HarperCollins and Amazon.com (links above) and found in bookstores across the country.

If you are interested in a pictorial history, of sorts, of Plath's books (and books about Plath), please do head over to A celebration, this is, and visit the photo galleries.

And just because I can, now, here is the HarperCollins cover of The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 2: 1956-1963. As of right now, the book will be published in the US on 30 October in hardback and Kindle edition. The book will be published in the UK a bit earlier, on 6 September 2018. Get ready!

The photograph on the cover comes from Plath's passport photo from 1959. The passport itself is held by Emory University.

All links accessed 7 and 12 March 2018.

Famous Quotes of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath inspires us all in various and wonderful ways. She is in many respects a form of comfort to us, which is something that Esther Greenwood expresses in The Bell Jar , about a bath: "There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath.'" We read and remember Sylvia Plath for many reasons, many of them deeply personal and private. But we commemorate her, too, in very public ways, as Anna of the long-standing Tumblr Loving Sylvia Plath , has been tracking, in the form of tattoos. (Anna's on Instagram with it too, as SylviaPlathInk .) The above bath quote is among Sylvia Plath's most famous. It often appears here and there and it is stripped of its context. But I think most people will know it is from her nove...

Some final photographs of Sylvia Plath

Susan O'Neill-Roe took a series of photographs of Sylvia Plath and her children from October to late November (or maybe early December) 1962 while she was a day nanny/mother's help at Court Green. From nearby Belstone , it was a short drive to North Tawton and the aid she provided enabled Plath to complete the masterful October and November poems and also to make day or overnight trips to London for poetry business and other business. Some of O'Neill-Roe's photographs are well-known. However, a cache of photographs formed a part of the papers of failed biographer Harriet Rosenstein. They were sold separately from the rest of her papers that went to Emory. I was fortunate enough to see low resolution scans of them a while back so please note these are being posted today as mere reference quality images. There are two series here. The first of the children with Plath dressed in red and black. (This should be referred to in the future, please, as Plath's Stendhal-c...

Amy C. Rea Reviews Heather Clark's Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

Here’s a thing about me: I’m a voracious reader, but very rarely have a physically based emotional response to something I’m reading. I don’t laugh out loud, I don’t cry, both of which I do when watching movies. It’s not that I don’t find things funny or sad when I read, but apparently I need more of a visual cue. So it’s telling that when I got to the end of Dr. Heather Clark’s new biography of Sylvia Plath, Red Comet , I cried. It’s not as if I didn’t know how the story ended. But the level of detail and analysis Clark brings to her study of Plath is so detailed, and her examination of those brutal last weeks so deeply explored, that it broke my heart. Clark has done some tremendously important and much-needed work with this biography. It would be remiss of me not to note the aid she received from Peter K. Steinberg and the work he did compiling Plath’s Letters . Clark clearly spent a great deal of time studying these source materials, as well as others that were not available ...

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