If you are unfamiliar with the works of Sylvia Plath, this is a perfect book to introduce you to this awarding-winning, Massachusetts poet. Stephanie Hemphill has captured the essense of Plath in her collection of poems about the poet. The poems are either written in a Plath-like style or written in the words of the people who knew her best. Although a work of fiction, Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath chronicles the life of Sylvia Plath from her birth in Boston on October 27, 1932, through her college years spent at Smith College, and into her married life with children in England.
Despite Sylvia Plath’s tragic ending, Hemphill weaves a tale of an inspirational and brilliant star snuffed out far too soon. Plath’s exceptional poetry and novel, The Bell Jar, still live on today influencing young poets and allowing them to discover the “night’s sky brillance.”
“She could not know how long
Her luminary would map the sky,
Or where her dying would lead the lost.”
—- from Your Own, Sylvia
by Stephanie Hemphill
Recommended for ages 13+
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