'Powerful"
-JOYCE CAROL OATES
"Authoritative ... A poet herself,
Ms. Stevenson not only wr ites
intelligently and sympathetically
about Plath's verse, but she also
locates the work within the
emotional matrix of the poet's life ."
- MICHIKO KAKUTANI ,
New York Times
liThe closest thing to an
'authorized' biography we are
likely to get:' - ELIZABETH WARD,
Wa shington Post Book World
"A vivid and, to me, moving
portrait of a young woman who
was the best-the most exciting
and influential, the most ruthlessly
original-poet of her generation:'
- JOHN UPDIKE
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A PETER DAVISON BOOK
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