7 Best fiction books like The Colossus and Other Poems by Sylvia Plath

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The Colossus and Other Poems

By: Sylvia Plath

3.31

Format: 267 pages,

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1. The Wild Iris

By: Louise Glück

4.18

Format: 65 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more

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  • poetry
  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • womens
"things that can't move learn to see"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

" No one's despair is like my despair-- "

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"

-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

Cover of Howl and Other Poems by William Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg

2. Howl and Other Poems

By: William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg

4.13

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

A beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotec… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • american
  • literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
"You too must seek the sun..."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"America this is quite serious"

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"The beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter"

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

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3. Birthday Letters

By: Ted Hughes

3.90

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

Formerly Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, the late Ted Hughes (1930-98) is recognized as one of… read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
  • classics
  • 20th century
"What happened casually remains -"

-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters

"What happens in the heart simply happens."

-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters

"How could Fate stage a scenario so symbolic without having secreted the tragedy ending and the ironic death?"

-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters

"Like a newer or much older religion In me alone, to be carried Everywhere with me -- deeper catacombs, And with a stronger God."

-Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters

Cover of To Bedlam and Part Way Back by Anne Sexton

4. To Bedlam and Part Way Back

By: Anne Sexton

4.25

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

Anne Sexton's first collection of poems. read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • american
"And we are magic talking to itself, noisy and alone. I am queen of all my sins forgotten. Am I still lost? Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself"

-Anne Sexton, To Bedlam and Part Way Back

"I, who was never quite sure about being a girl, needed another life, another image to remind me. And this was my worst guilt; you could not cure nor soothe it. I made you to find me."

-Anne Sexton, To Bedlam and Part Way Back

" Her Kind I have gone out, a possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night; dreaming evil, I have done my hitch over the plain houses, light by light: lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of…"

-Anne Sexton, To Bedlam and Part Way Back

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5. The Colossus and Other Poems

By: Sylvia Plath

3.31

Format: 267 pages,

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • american
  • literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • womens
Cover of The Hawk in the Rain by Ted Hughes

6. The Hawk in the Rain

By: Ted Hughes

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Published in 1957, Hawk in the Rainwas Ted Hughes's first collection of poems. It won the New York … read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • 20th century
  • fiction
Cover of Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow by Ted Hughes

7. Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow

By: Ted Hughes

4.26

Format: 999 pages, Hardcover

Crowwas Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • 20th century
  • fiction
Cover of The Circle Game by Margaret Atwood, Sherrill Grace

8. The Circle Game

By: Margaret Atwood , Sherrill Grace

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The appearance of Margaret Atwood's first major collection of poetry marked the beginning of a trul… read more

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  • literature
  • poetry
  • womens
  • fiction
Cover of Love Poems by Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Wood Middlebrook

9. Love Poems

By: Anne Sexton , Diane Wood Middlebrook , Diana Wood Middlebrook

4.08

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Twenty-five poems celebrating the sensual frontiers of Sexton's time. read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • 20th century
  • american
Cover of The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton, Maxine Kumin

10. The Complete Poems

By: Anne Sexton , Maxine Kumin

4.08

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

From the joy and anguish of her own experience, Sexton fashioned poems that told truths about the i… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • american
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • womens

11. All My Pretty Ones

By: Anne Sexton

3.50

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

"All My Pretty Ones" is the title poem of Anne Sexton's intensely confessional second book of poetr… read more

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12. Selected Poems

By: Linda Gray Sexton , Anne Sexton

3.67

Format: 499 pages, Paperback

This selection, which is drawn from Anne Sexton's ten published volumes of poems as well as from re… read more

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13. Felicity

By: Mary Oliver

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems "If I ha… read more

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14. Selected Poems

By: T.S. Eliot

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

Chosen by Eliot himself, the poems in this volume represent the poet's most important work before F… read more

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15. Transformations

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Anne Sexton , None

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The fairy tale-based works of the tortured confessional poet, whose honesty and wit in the face of … read more

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16. Selected Poems

By: E.E. Cummings , Richard S. Kennedy

3.62

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

The one hundred and fifty-six poems here, arranged in twelve sections and introduced by E. E. Cummi… read more

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17. Selected Poems 1934-1952, New Revised Edition

By: Dylan Thomas

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) prepared this volume in 1952 the author's choice of the ninety poems he fe… read more

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18. Lupercal

By: Ted Hughes

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

The authors second collection which prints some of his most revered work including Pike, Hawk Roost… read more

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19. Night Sky with Exit Wounds

By: Ocean Vuong

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more

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20. Live or Die

By: Anne Sexton

3.44

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: A gripping poetry collection mapping the thorny journey from madness … read more

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Cover of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather   Clark

21. Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

By: Heather Clark

4.58

Format: 1154 pages, ebook

The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material,… read more

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  • poetry
"I lust for him, and in my mind I am ripped to bits by the words he welds and wields...and glory in the temporary sun of his ruthless force."

-Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

"She was, [Wilfrid Riley] recalled, "a very clever person, but you couldn't be at ease with her some way. She wasn't with you. She was up in the clouds, always studying poetry, what have you . . . You…"

-Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

8 Top classics books like The Colossus and Other Poems by Sylvia Plath

Transform Your Habits

Howl and Other Poems

William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Birthday Letters

Ted Hughes

3.90

Transform Your Habits

To Bedlam and Part Way Back

Anne Sexton

4.25

Transform Your Habits

The Colossus and Other Poems

Sylvia Plath

3.31

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7 Top 20th century books like The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton, Maxine Kumin

Transform Your Habits

The Collected Poems

Wallace Stevens

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Howl and Other Poems

William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Ariel

Sylvia Plath

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Birthday Letters

Ted Hughes

3.90

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