Your Own, Sylvia
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  • Published: 23 December 2008
  • ISBN: 9780440239680
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $26.99

Your Own, Sylvia

A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath

  • Stephanie Hemphill
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26 Dec 2006
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3 Mar 2009
Paperback
23 Dec 2008
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Kirkus described Your Own, Sylvia as "A must for any young adult reader of poetry or Plath." The trade paperback offers a great opportunity to sell the book directly to Plath's passionate teenage fanbase, and get it onto more library shelves. Educators should find much clasroom use for the book's social issues, historical portraits, literary forms, source notes and bibliography. Most of all, this book will attract those it was written especially for: brainy, book-y girls and those drawn to high-drama literary fare.

Your Own, Sylvia draws on Plath’s writing and extensive nonfiction sources, chronicling Hemphill’s interpretation of Plath’s life from infancy to her death by suicide at age 30. The poems are arranged chronologically and each conveys an experience in Plath’s life told via the voice and perspective of family members, friends, doctors, fellow writers, etc.—as interpreted by Hemphill. Each poem is accompanied by an addendum that further explains the factual circumstances of that poem’s subject. The book also includes an Author’s Note, some photos, a section describing the source material for each poem, and suggestions for further reading.
  • Published: 23 December 2008
  • ISBN: 9780440239680
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $26.99
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Praise for Your Own, Sylvia

*"Hemphill's verse, like Plath's, is completely compelling: every word, every line, worth reading."
--Horn Book, Starred Review
*"A must for any young-adult reader of poetry or Plath." --Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
*"An intimate, comprehensive, imaginative view of a life, which also probes the relationships between poetry and creativity, mental fragility, love, marriage, and bettrayal." --Booklist, Starred Review
"anapt curriculum companion to Plath's literary works...will pull the next generation of readers into the myth of Sylvia Plath." --School Library Journal

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