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264 pp.
| Dutton
| September, 2014
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TradeISBN 978-0-525-42305-8$17.99
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YA
After her boyfriend's death, Jam is shipped to a boarding school for "emotionally fragile, highly intelligent" teens. She's placed in a course for which the only materials are Sylvia Plath's poems, The Bell Jar, and a journal to write in. Much of this powerful book straddles the real and the supernatural, but it's ultimately about the otherworldly things the mind is capable of.
Reviewer: Katrina Hedeen
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2014
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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.
Reviewer: Lissa Paul
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
March, 2007
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