LITERATURE
Hemphill, Stephanie

Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath

(1) YA In this fictionalized biography in verse, Hemphill channels the romantic version of Sylvia. The majority of the poems are putatively composed by the people who knew Plath; the remainder are identified as the author "Imagining Sylvia Plath." Hemphill is metrically adept and possesses Plath's eye for figurative language. Her verse, like Plath's, is completely compelling: every word, every line, worth reading.

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