Best Poems of 1957: Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards 1958
California: Stanford University Press, 1958.
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Hardcover. First edition. Edited by Robert Thomas Moore. Fine in a price-clipped, near very good dustwrapper with rubbing and small holes. Tenth annual issue. A compilation of original poetry published in magazines of the English-speaking world in 1957. Includes contributions by W.H. Auden, C. Day Lewis, Lysander Kemp, Sylvia Plath, Theodore Roethke, Eudora Welty, John Hall Wheelock, and others. This copy Signed by Welty at her contribution "A Flock of Guinea Hens Seen from a Car", and A.R. Ammons at his "Hymn"
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Sylvia Plath
birth name: Sylvia Plath
born: 10/27/1932
died: 2/11/1963
Biography
American poet whose best-known poems are carefully crafted pieces noted for their personal imagery and intense focus. Many concern such themes as alienation, death, and self-destruction. She was little known at the time of her death by suicide, but by the mid-1970s she was considered a major contemporary poet. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of LiteratureAmore