- Paperback: 80 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; 1st HarperPerennial Ed edition (Nov 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060930020
- ISBN-13: 978-0060930028
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.7 x 0.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,084,965 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Hughes has a poet's gaze and a vivid, often searing style."--" San Diego Union-Tribune""Frieda Hughes rides on no one's shoulders. She Is her own poet. Her work, at its best, is sharp, vigorous and cunning. Her vision Is strange and imaginative, at times possessing the odd lilting rhythms and surreal imagery of a dark and menacing nursery rhyme.""-- Denver Post""Highly accomplished ... a major debut.""-- Kirkus Reviews (Starred)"
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Welcome to the meticulously observed world of Frieda Hughes. It is a world of tangible materiality constantly on the brink of change, a world populated with foxes and fire, fathers and lovers, mothers and birdmen--a world that is ultimately combustible, fragile, fearsome, and elegiacally beautiful. Hughes maps the landscape, both within and without, in language possessed of an almost painterly sensitivity and a sublime mastery of craft. The self she depicts is one who is tested by loss, danger, betrayal, and abandonment, yet one who is transformed through experience into a world beyond nihilism and despair a place that makes possible truth, strength of character, and the redemptive power of love.
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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Hughes' collection of poems are mostly on the theme of nature or apply metaphors of nature to human lives.
Poems contain beautiful arrangements of words and ideas, but are sometimes difficult to understand, leading the reader to imagine their own meanings.
Poems provide a fascinating, often disturbing insight into relationships. I get the feeling there are many feminist undertones contained within the poems.
An unusual and intersting read, for when you're in a reflective mood.
Poems contain beautiful arrangements of words and ideas, but are sometimes difficult to understand, leading the reader to imagine their own meanings.
Poems provide a fascinating, often disturbing insight into relationships. I get the feeling there are many feminist undertones contained within the poems.
An unusual and intersting read, for when you're in a reflective mood.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Dark like her mother & tender like her father
8 Sep 2006
Format:Paperback
I would have to say that Frieda Hughes is definitely a product of her parents. Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. She truly has that poetic ability in her blood. Her poems are both foreboding and devotional. This book is short and gives you a great idea of what types of colors Ms. Hughes is painting with in her surreal fantasy of the obscure voice. A must have for anyone who loves poetry, especially Ted Hughes and/or Sylvia Plath.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Painted words
16 Jan 2001
Format:Paperback
What a burden to have on top of you if you want to write poetry - your mother is Sylvia Plath; your father is poet laureate Ted Hughes. I was lucky and read a few of her poems before I knew her family background. Rereading them after that knowledge led me off in new directions... and I'm not sure how useful that was... The poems work well on their own. She has the painter's eye for color & detail (she & her husband are painters - she also writes & illustrates children's books) but there is more there. Yes, I see Hughes here - like those the foxes lurking about- and Plath's weight of family bearing down on her. But also I see someone off in Wooroloo, Australia very much on her own in that new land. I recommend it.
Whoarewrite.
6 Dec 2008
Format:Paperback
Frieda Hughes, Wooroloo (Harper, 1998)
The back cover copy begins, "Welcome to the meticulously-observed world of Frieda Hughes." I'm not inclined to disagree with that assessment, but I do feel the need to point out that how well one takes information in is relatively irrelevant if one is not skilled at sending that information back out.
"His bald cries echoed in emptiness,
His unspoilt chamber,
Banging on his walls like kindling.
He had not felt the thistle whip,
Or heard a woman cry.
He had not seen his children leave,
Or watched his father die, slowly..."
("Birdman")
(You know, they invented this thing called enjambment a thousand or so years ago that's really helpful when writing poetry!) While I give Hughes points for trying--every once in a while a good line or two does float to the surface--this is the work of a writer who needs to spend a good deal more time workshopping before heading back to the world of publishing. **
The back cover copy begins, "Welcome to the meticulously-observed world of Frieda Hughes." I'm not inclined to disagree with that assessment, but I do feel the need to point out that how well one takes information in is relatively irrelevant if one is not skilled at sending that information back out.
"His bald cries echoed in emptiness,
His unspoilt chamber,
Banging on his walls like kindling.
He had not felt the thistle whip,
Or heard a woman cry.
He had not seen his children leave,
Or watched his father die, slowly..."
("Birdman")
(You know, they invented this thing called enjambment a thousand or so years ago that's really helpful when writing poetry!) While I give Hughes points for trying--every once in a while a good line or two does float to the surface--this is the work of a writer who needs to spend a good deal more time workshopping before heading back to the world of publishing. **
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