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3 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio Cassette
10/10: this the value of Sylvia's voice. Deep into her own private poetry, she talks to her self and let us to listen her. Storm behind the clouds, her voice is the rain and we are the white (or grey) cloud. She is so quiet in this hyperballad, like a postmodern hypertext where the meaning is not all.I wonder why the Poetry, in our days, is only another slave of Establishment.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
A special experience...
26 Jun 2000
Format:Audio Cassette
...to actually hear Sylvia Plath read her own work. The poems here are wonderful(the selections are taken from radio broadcasts, I think)and not surprisingly, the author's voice adds much more to their enjoyment. And it is an interesting voice: deep, with a slightly stilted, "unplaceable" accent, and a throaty emotional quality. I only wish there was more-more poems, and perhaps even one of her interviews that are sometimes excerpted in documentaries. Nevertheless, a must for Plath readers.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Sylvia Plath Reads--Early Work
12 July 2005
Format:Audio Cassette|Amazon Verified Purchase
"Sylvia Plath Reads" is an asset to any Plath fan or scholar's collection. However, keep in mind that this 50 minute cassette tape focuses primarily on her early work, and not the infamous Ariel poems which epitomize Plath's legacy and that made her name. Taken in this light, these poems are luminous, haunting, and executed with her characteristic immaculate craftsmanship. At times, they can be quite thesaurus-driven and artificed. Several excellent poems represented include the following: "Berck-plage" (the only Ariel poem on the recording), "Mushrooms," "November Graveyard," and "The Stones" (from "Poem for a Birthday").
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Wonderful to Hear The Real Plath Reading Her Work
1 July 2006
Format:Audio Cassette|Amazon Verified Purchase
The only reasons I gave this audiobook 4 stars is that it lacks any introduction to each poem - does not even give a title. I know Plath generally announced something about her poetry when she read for BBC.
It would have been helpful to include a small booklet of the poems read simiar to Anne Sexton's Audiobook.
I wish more poems had been included. The actual audiobook is pretty sparse.
I was delighted to hear her mature beyond her years voice reading one poem from the original "Ariel" -- about the death of her neighbor Perce, entitled "Berek-Plage".
Her voice is powerful, full of anger and anguish that builds in such intensity it is though she is in the room with you.
It would have been helpful to include a small booklet of the poems read simiar to Anne Sexton's Audiobook.
I wish more poems had been included. The actual audiobook is pretty sparse.
I was delighted to hear her mature beyond her years voice reading one poem from the original "Ariel" -- about the death of her neighbor Perce, entitled "Berek-Plage".
Her voice is powerful, full of anger and anguish that builds in such intensity it is though she is in the room with you.
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