"Spirit: The Poems of Michelle Plath" Author: [US] Sylvia Plath Translator: Chen Li/ Zhang Fenling Beijing United Publishing Company

【Editor's recommendation】

⭐Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry, representative of the "confessional school", the masterpiece of the genius poet Plath

⭐Open with "love" and end with "spring"; use the facts of life to fight against the subtleties of life

⭐ "Elf" complete version 55 songs included

⭐Compare the two volumes edited by Hughes and selected by Plath. Let the poems abandon all controversy and speak for themselves.

【Content Introduction】

Sylvia Plath is a representative of "confessional" poetry and the first poet to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize after her death. She is good at digging into the deepest inner world. In her works, the light and shadow of life are intertwined, the issues of life and death are debated, and strong emotions and rigorous poetic style are balanced.

The Spirits is Plath's last work, with a unique style, sophisticated techniques, and a melancholy temperament and sad mood. The complete version of The Spirits translated by Chen Li and Zhang Fenling includes two parts: 41 poems from "Plath's own edition" and 14 poems from "Hughes's edited edition", as well as seven Chinese translations of Plath's poems and manuscripts written for the BBC radio program "Plath's New Poems". It strives to fully present Plath's swan song about the desire for life and the art of death.

【Celebrity Recommendation】

In these poems... Sylvia Plath becomes herself, an imaginary, new, wild, ingenious creation. —Robert Lowell

Sylvia Plath's poetry has become legendary, at once the keynote of our present emotional life and unique in its irreconcilable, piercing brilliance...Spirit is a triumph of wrenching proof of poetry's power to give reality a more enduring imaginative dimension. -George Steiner

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)

A famous American poet and novelist, and a representative of the "confessional school" of poetry. His poems are passionate and cautious, revealing the inner world of individuals with powerful words, and giving poems a wider space for interpretation through imagery and techniques, which are hailed as a miracle of the 20th century. During his lifetime, Plath published the poetry collection "The Colossus and Other Poems" and the autobiographical novel "The Bell and Jar". His posthumous work "The Spirit" won worldwide acclaim. Twenty years after his death, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry "for changing the direction of American poetry creation."

Chen Li

Graduated from the Department of English at National Taiwan Normal University. Author of more than 20 collections of poetry, prose, and music reviews. Won the Taiwan Literature Award, Wu Sanlian Literature Award, Times Literature Award Recommendation Award, Narrative Poetry First Prize, New Poetry First Prize, United Daily News Literature Award New Poetry First Prize, Taiwan Literature Award New Poetry Golden Classic Award, Liang Shiqiu Literature Award Translation Award, etc.

Zhang Fenling

Graduated from the Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University. Author of "Modern Poetry Revelation", and co-translated more than 30 poetry collections with Chen Li. Won the Lin Rongsan Literature Award for Prose and Essays, and Liang Shiqiu Literature Award for Translation many times.