Birthday Letters : Poems by Ted Hughes

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197 pp.; 20 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Formerly Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, the late Ted Hughes (1930-98) is recognized as one of the few contemporary poets whose work has mythic scope and power. And few episodes in postwar literature have the legendary stature of Hughes's romance with, and marriage to, the great American poet Sylvia Plath. The poems in Birthday Letters are addressed (with just two exceptions) to Plath, and were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963. Some are love letters, others haunted recollections and ruminations. In them, Hughes recalls his and Plath's time together, drawing on the powerful imagery of his work--animal, vegetable, mythological--as well as on Plath's famous verse. Countless books have discussed the subject of this intense relationship from a necessary distance, but this volume--at last--offers us Hughes's own account. Moreover, it is a truly remarkable collection of pems in its own right. / Ted Hughes died in October 1998, having received acclaim in the last year of his life: the Whitbread Book of the Year Prize for Tales from Ovid, the Forward Prize for Birthday Letters, and the British Order of Merit. He was Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II." - Publisher.

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New York 1998 Soft Cover 3rd Printing Fine. No Dust Jacket 12mo-over 6"-7" tall. 198pp. Poetry. Multiple copies may be available. "An astinishing volume of poems..." N.Y. Times.

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Gordonsville, Virginia 1999 Paperback As New All pages clean.

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1998 Trade pb Fine. No DJ Issued Fine. No dust jacket, as issued. fine condition trade paperback, all pgs clean and unmarked, ships promptly w/delivery confirmation. Unknown printing. Illustrated by. 198 p.; 198 p.; 0. 70" x 7. 97" x 5. 10". trade paperback stated first edition, 3rd printing.

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