false <![CDATA[The Colossus and Other Poems]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166483127m/11627.jpg 11627 9 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 <b>The Colossus</b> are early artifacts of genius that still possess the power to move, delight, and shock. 503408 1957 The Colossus and Other Poems total:896|5:349|4:347|3:179|2:19|1:2| 896 3710 1174 22 5 1 false false Sat Apr 05 12:05:11 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 07 12:42:38 -0700 2008 The Colossus all at once. It's had, it's had an, it's made me. . . I'm sorry, I have to sit down and start again.

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