" . . . a young woman who . . . rose from the dead to become, in ten driven years, the best - the most exciting and influential, the most ruthlessly original poet of her generation." — John Updike Of the many American poets who reached her zenith in the last few decades, perhaps none looms so large as the legendary Sylvia Plath. Consummately crafted, Plath's poetry is stormy but luminous, sharp but poignant. This unique, compelling and intriguing recording has been heralded as "a significant tribute to and record of the lyric art that Sylvia Plath left to the literary heritage of America." (Booklist) Contents: The Ghost's Leavetaking November Graveyard On the Plethora of Dryads The Moon Was a Fat Woman Once Nocturne Child's Park Stones The Earthenware Head On the Difficulty of Conjuring up a Dryad Green Rock—Winthrop Bay On the Decline of Oracles The Goring Ouija The Beggars of Benidorm Market Sculptor The Disquieting Muses Spinster Parliament Hill Fields The Stones Candles Mushrooms Berck-plage The Surgeon at 2 A.M.