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    A Crown for Ted and Sylvia
    A Crown for Ted and Sylvia
    A Crown for Ted and Sylvia
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    A Crown for Ted and Sylvia

    By Kim Bridgford

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    A Crown for Ted and Sylvia is a book of poetry for Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes fans and for those obsessed by their compelling literary story. It examines questions about the politics of family and shifting perspectives over time, and asks why some families are fated to repeat certain narratives over generations. Finally, those who enjoy traditional forms, such as sonnets, villanelles, and pentinas, will find plenty of them here.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherResource Publications
    Release dateJul 19, 2019
    ISBN9781532672903
    A Crown for Ted and Sylvia
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    Kim Bridgford

    Kim Bridgford is the director of Poetry by the Sea and the editor of Mezzo Cammin. The author of thirteen books, she is the recipient of grants from the NEA, the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, and the Ucross Foundation. With Russell Goings, she rang the closing bell of the New York Stock Exchange, in celebration of his book The Children of Children Keep Coming, for which she wrote the introduction.

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      A Crown for Ted and Sylvia

      Copyright © 2019 Kim Bridgford. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401.

      Resource Publications

      An Imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers

      199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3

      Eugene, OR 97401

      www.wipfandstock.com

      paperback isbn: 978-1-5326-7288-0

      hardcover isbn: 978-1-5326-7289-7

      ebook isbn: 978-1-5326-7290-3

      Manufactured in the U.S.A. September 6, 2019

      Cover Image: Ted Hughes & Sylvia Plath in Yorkshire, England, 1956.

      Photograph by Harry Patrick Ogden.

      Courtesy of Smith College Special Collections

      Ruth Fainlight Letter: The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume II, pp. 658-59.

      This book is for everyone who has ever been fascinated by the work of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Even now, over forty years after reading The Bell Jar, I am still in love—and so I offer up this crown.

      Friday 6 October 1961

      Dear Ruth (Fainlight),

      A small note to say you are an angel for the terrific apple recipes & how I hope you are all right. It’s difficult & in a way impertinent to tell you how very much I am wishing things to go well for you, because noone can ever really identify deeply enough with someone else’s special predicament to make the words I know how you feel carry their full weight . . .

      Lots of love,

      Sylvia

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      I am grateful to the following journal editors, who have brought my work to print: Melissa Balmain and Kevin Durkin; Dolores Mildred Batten, Julia Gordon Bramer, William Buckley, and Robert Eric Shoemaker; Jill Pelaez Baumgartner; Jerome Betts; Sarah Bunting, Tony O’Dwyer, Ger Burke, and Jarlath Fahy; Pino Coluccio and Alexandra Oliver; Anna Evans; Marci Johnson; Allison Joseph and Jon Tribble; Bill and Kate Lantry; Robert Nazarene; Rebecca O’Connor; and Ryan Wilson. I wish to thank them for the tireless work they do to support writers.

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