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...ARIEL, by Sylvia Plath. Suicide ended the promising career of Poet Sylvia Plath in 1963. In these poems written during her last months, she dipped her pen in old wounds and secret bile and scribbled a volume of violent verse that constitutes a major contribution to the poetry of abreaction...
...ARIEL by Sylvia Plath. 85 pages. Harper...
Published last year in Britain, the last poems of Sylvia Plath sold 15,000 copies in ten months, almost as many as a bestselling novel, and inspired a vigorous new group of confessional poets. Published last week in the U.S., Ariel adds a powerful voice to the rising chorus of American bards (Robert Lowell, Ann Sexton, Frederick Seidel) who practice poetry as abreaction...
...hate, love, death and the poet's own identity become fused at black heat with the figure of her father, and through him, with the guilt of the German exterminators and the suffering of their Jewish victims. They are poems, as Robert Lowell says in his preface to Ariel, that "play Russian roulette with six cartridges in the cylinder...
...speaker: outgoing President Sir Charles Wheeler, 74, a sculptor whose 15-ft.-tall gilded baroque figure, Ariel, stands atop the Bank of England...