Anne Stevenson Libros

This is a retrospective by a British/American poet, winner of the Northern Rock Foundation Writer Award, Britain's biggest literary prize (worth GBP60,000).

Represents a view of her work Elizabeth Bishop herself would have recognised and approved. A chronology and a set of maps serve as practical guides to the poet's life and travels.

A biography of the American poet Sylvia Plath which presents a different view of her life and death by shifting any blame away from Plath's husband, Ted Hughes, and suggesting the problems lay in her personality difficulties.

This posthumously published Collected Poems is a remaking of Anne Stevenson's earlier Poems 1955-2005 (2005), expanded to include poems from her final three books, Stone Milk (2007), Astonishment (2012) and Completing the Circle (2020), drawing on 16 collections.

Sylvia Plath, geboren 1932 in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. 1952 veröffentlichte sie ihre erste preisgekrönte Erzählung »Sonntag bei den Mintons«. 1953 Suicidversuch. 1956 Heirat mit dem Lyriker Ted Hughes. 1960 und 1962 Geburt ihrer Kinder. 1963 erschien ihr Roman »Die Glasglocke«. 1963 Freitod in London. In der FVA erschienen die Erzählbände »Zungen aus Stein« (FVA 1989/2012) und »Die Bibel der Träume« (FVA 1987/2012) sowie Sylvia Plath »Tagebücher« (FVA 1997) in der Übersetzung von Alissa Walser.