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Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath Library Binding – 13 March 2007

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On a bleak February day in 1963 a young American poet died by her own hand, and passed into a myth that has since imprinted itself on the hearts and minds of millions. She was and is Sylvia Plath and Your Own, Sylvia is a portrait of her life, told in poems.

With photos and an extensive list of facts and sources to round out the reading experience, Your Own, Sylvia is a great curriculum companion to Plath's The Bell Jar and Ariel, a welcoming introduction for newcomers, and an unflinching valentine for the devoted.

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Publisher : Alfred a Knopf Inc (13 March 2007)
Language : English
Library Binding : 276 pages
ISBN-10 : 0375937994
ISBN-13 : 978-0375937996
Reading age : 12 years and up
Dimensions : 14.58 x 2.24 x 21.74 cm

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Stephanie Hemphill lives in Los Angeles, California.

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silencenomore

Sylvia. What more can be said of this weeping ...

Reviewed in the United States on 29 February 2016

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Sylvia. What more can be said of this weeping soul. So fragile, yet strong. Loving so deeply is cost her to not want life any longer. I have always had a soft spot for the deep passion she felt as a young lady. In her verse , she expresses the world through her eyes. Don't we see? Can we not feel? As if her heartache is all there is to be felt in this huge world. I give this book four stars. I only wish she had been here long enough to continue writing more.

Deena

Astonishing!

Reviewed in the United States on 27 March 2015

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First of all, there 200+ poems in this book, so it is an amazing volume. Then there is the fact that each poem is about Sylvia Plath. Even more amazing still is the fact that most of the poems are written from the point of view of someone who knew her, someone almost completely unknown to the poet whose work this is! Stephanie Hemphill is a masterful poet, and this was a labor of love that is also a stroke of genius.

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Ria

I love this book

Reviewed in the United States on 18 December 2015

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I love this book! Such an interesting perspective. As a teacher, I definitely found this text useful when teaching The Bell Jar.

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M. szymanski

More Plath/Hughes exploitation

Reviewed in the United States on 3 November 2008

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"Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath", is a book that should not have been written or published. The poetry itself is lame and lackluster, and doesn't do the subject any credit at all. Also, as a fan of Plath myself, I feel Plath, as well as her late husband, have been exploited in the literary far too much. How do you look into someone's marriage and make a verse story out of it? As the author of this waste of time must be an andmirer of Plath, so am I, and I think enough is enough of the Plath/Hughes melodrama. Let's just respect both poets great works.

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It was a great book to read but I don't think I'm at ...

Reviewed in the United States on 4 February 2016

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It was a great book to read but I don't think I'm at the level to completely understand what the authors message is.

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