A Review of Heather Clark

WebHeather Clark’s Red Comet is the book I’ve been waiting for. Meticulously researched and conceived with a sympathetic, sure-footed grasp of her subject, Clark has created a glass … WebDec 10, 2024 · In “ Red Comet ,” biographer Heather Clark describes Sylvia Plath facing her husband Ted Hughes’s abandonment with a poem by British writer Stevie Smith taped … gx velocity\u0027s

WebRed Comet was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the LA Times Book Prize in Biography, and was a New York Times Top Ten Book of 2024. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, Harvard Review, Time, Air Mail, Lit Hub, and The Times Literary Supplement. Web“An exciting contribution not only to Plath studies but to biography, poetics, cultural history, and feminist history and theory, Red Comet is an extraordinary book. Clark animates … WebFeb 3, 2024 · Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath. The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material, this is an unusually balanced, comprehensive and definitive life of Sylvia Plath. Determined not to read Plath's work as if her every act, from childhood on, was a harbinger of her tragic ... gxve beauty gwen