With this startling, exhilarating book of poems, which was first published in
1960, Sylvia Plath burst into literature with spectacular force. In such
classics as "The Beekeeper's Daughter," "The Disquieting Muses," "I Want, I
Want," and "Full Fathom Five," she writes about sows and skeletons, fathers and
suicides, about the noisy imperatives of life and the chilly hunger for death.
Graceful in their craftsmanship, wonderfully original in their imagery, and
presenting layer after layer of meaning, the forty poems in The Colossus are
early artifacts of genius that still possess the power to move, delight, and
shock.