Out of the ashes I rise with my red hair.

Post-Wave Illustration Classic Series: Master Translators, Masterpieces, Master Illustrations

Featuring timeless illustrations, meticulously crafted translations

Bilingual Chinese-English, hardcover small format

40 poems written between 1956 and 1963

From a woman in love, a woman in marriage,

A daughter to her parents, to a single mother of two children

Sylvia Plath's heartfelt confessions

Charming and heartbreaking

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Editor's Recommendation:

◎ Forty poems selected from Sylvia Plath's works between 1956 and 1963. From a woman in love, a woman in marriage, a daughter to her parents, to a single mother of two children, Plath's heartfelt confessions are charming and heartbreaking.

★ I am no more than a cloud / that distills a mirror to mirror itself / slowly erasing itself in the wind. / I am no more than your mother.

★ The wood dove rests in his wood, / extracting a song to accommodate / his meandering mood.

★ The shadow of the turtledove is singing, but there is no solace.

★ At twenty I tried to die / to get back, back, back to you. / I thought even the bones would do.

★ I am no more your mother / than the cloud that distills a mirror to mirror itself / slowly erasing itself in the wind.

Sylvia Plath, the most important American female poet after Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Bishop. In these 40 poems written between 1956 and 1963, Plath is a lover, a mother, a daughter, at her core a woman, the kind of strong woman who, like Lady Lazarus, can rise from the ashes, be struck down again and again, and continue to live again and again.

◎ Death and rebirth intertwine, and the arrows Plath shoots at herself in her poems are sincere, sad, frustrated, and hopeful. Whether viewed as a comet burning herself out to emit a brief light, or a witch using poetry as a curse to resurrect herself, those expressions that strike at the heart will never be forgotten.

★ Dying / is an art, like everything else. / I do it exceptionally well. / I do it so it feels like hell. / I do it so it feels real. / I guess you could say I have a call.

★ They threaten / to cross me over to a heaven / without stars, without husband, a black water.

★ Out of the ash / I rise with my red hair / And I eat men like air.

★ Whose long white box in the wood, what have they finished, / why am I cold.

Plath introduced her poem "Lady Lazarus" on a BBC radio broadcast: "The speaker is a woman with an extraordinary and terrible gift for rebirth. The only trouble is, to be reborn, she must first die. Call her a phoenix, or a free-willed sprite, or anything you like. At the same time, she is also just a kind, simple, and resourceful woman." In a way, she believed this was also a reflection of herself.

◎ The book contains 19 illustrations by Sylvia Plath.

Plath loved to paint. In October 1956, in a letter to her husband Ted Hughes, she described her feelings about painting: "Yesterday on a walk I brought back a purple thistle and a clump of dandelions, and drew them meticulously; I also drew a teapot and some chestnuts, though rather badly, but with more practice I'm sure I'll improve; painting makes me feel incredibly peaceful, more peaceful than praying, walking, or anything else. I am completely absorbed in the lines, losing myself."

◎ Hardcover with a square spine, convenient small format design, with a beautiful bookplate included. The text is arranged in a bilingual Chinese-English format for easy reading anywhere, anytime. The cover uses special paper for spot color printing, and the inner pages are 78g offset paper with four-color printing, ensuring clear printing, easy flipping, and eye protection.

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Celebrity Endorsements:

★ There is a delicate and heartbreaking quality to her poems that makes Sylvia Plath our acknowledged "Queen of Sorrow," a spokesperson for our deepest, most helpless nightmares... Her poetry is deadly and impeccable; it fascinates us, just as it fascinated her.

—Joyce Carol Oates, American novelist, poet, critic, playwright

★ Plath made me realize that there is no need to gloss over wounds—wounds themselves are a source of light.

—Patti Smith, American writer, musician, and visual artist

★ The intensely intimate emotion in her poems constitutes a powerful rhetoric of sincerity. The poems, with their proud frankness, disturb our nerves, making urgent, intense demands that cause readers to wince, embarrassed by their own habitually cautious sensibility. If these poems are to bring life into us, if they are not merely to demonstrate the history of modern spiritual anxiety, we must read them with careful concentration. They are too sincere, too costly, to be easily dismissed as myth.

—George Steiner, American literary critic, translation theorist

★ The disintegration of life is her artistic immortality. Death, her hurried, defiant death, is surprise, the glittering birthday gift opened, the transcendence that "flies into the red eye, the great morning cauldron," the lover who has been waiting for her.

—Robert Lowell, American poet, essayist, translator

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Awards:

In 1982, 19 years after her death, Sylvia Plath was posthumously awarded the highest honor in American poetry—the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

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Synopsis:

In these forty poems written between 1956 and 1963, Sylvia Plath transforms from a woman in love to a woman in marriage, from a daughter to her parents to a mother of two children. In the poems dedicated to Ted Hughes, we can feel the sweetness and excitement that love brought her, a stark contrast to the bitterness she describes in later poems about betrayal and lost love. She also wrote poems for her beloved children, watching their dancing hands in their cribs like a night dance, and also wrote about the hardships of raising children alone; she wrote about the pain of miscarriage, and her relationship with her father and mother... In these poems, Plath is a lover, a mother, a daughter, at her core a woman, the kind of strong woman who, like Lady Lazarus, can rise from the ashes, be struck down again and again, and continue to live again and again.

2025-09-01

江苏凤凰文艺出版社

The Younger Generation, Hou Lang Literature

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9787559494665