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Forty-Five: Poems

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The daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes looks back on forty-fiveyears of loves, losses, pain, hope and joy in this revealing poetrycollection.

Breaking forty-five years of near-silence on the subject of her life,Frieda Hughes finally opens up through the medium she knows best --poetry. In this extraordinary collection of personal poems, she takesthe reader step-by-step through the difficult and inspirational eventsthat defined each year of her life, and which she encapsulates here. Weshare her pain through her mother's suicide, her fight against bulimia,three marriages, losing her father to cancer, and an apparentlyinsurmountable breakdown in the relationship with her stepmother. In theface of so much grief, she also shared her successes, her love, and herultimate triumphs as an accomplished poet and painter. As she growsolder, her narrative unfolds to show a complex life beautifully renderedin her poetry.

Hughes is a master of powerful, moving, and vivid language, as seen withthe critical success of her past collections, Wooroloo and Waxworks, andnever more so than now, as she takes on the topics of life, love, loss,and family. For any love of poetry or for anyone who wants to know whathappened in the life of Frieda Hughes after she so tragically lost hermother, this book is the answer.

Language: English

Pages: 108

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Harper

Release: November 28, 2006

ISBN: 0061136018

ISBN 13: 9780061136016

Forty-Five: Poems

3.2/5 ( ratings)

The daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes looks back on forty-fiveyears of loves, losses, pain, hope and joy in this revealing poetrycollection.

Breaking forty-five years of near-silence on the subject of her life,Frieda Hughes finally opens up through the medium she knows best --poetry. In this extraordinary collection of personal poems, she takesthe reader step-by-step through the difficult and inspirational eventsthat defined each year of her life, and which she encapsulates here. Weshare her pain through her mother's suicide, her fight against bulimia,three marriages, losing her father to cancer, and an apparentlyinsurmountable breakdown in the relationship with her stepmother. In theface of so much grief, she also shared her successes, her love, and herultimate triumphs as an accomplished poet and painter. As she growsolder, her narrative unfolds to show a complex life beautifully renderedin her poetry.

Hughes is a master of powerful, moving, and vivid language, as seen withthe critical success of her past collections, Wooroloo and Waxworks, andnever more so than now, as she takes on the topics of life, love, loss,and family. For any love of poetry or for anyone who wants to know whathappened in the life of Frieda Hughes after she so tragically lost hermother, this book is the answer.

Language: English

Pages: 108

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Harper

Release: November 28, 2006

ISBN: 0061136018

ISBN 13: 9780061136016

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