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Heather Clark is an American writer, literary critic and academic. Her biography of poet Sylvia Plath, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize. [1] She is also the author of The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (2011) and The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast 1962 ...
May 1, 2014 · ECW Press|May 1, 2014|Trade Paperback|ISBN: 978-1-77041-083-1. The stigma of mental illness and the power of a mother's love come together in this achingly honest novel. Widely acclaimed for her ability to tell emotionally powerful stories that capture the real lives of women, bestselling author Heather A. Clark tackles the subject of childhood ...
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Oct 27, 2020 · By Heather Clark Illustrated. 1,118 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $40. A version of this article appears in print on , Page 1 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Star Power .
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Clark is compassionate, clear-eyed, skeptical. Each chapter reads with the ease of a novel. You feel the smart of every rejection letter, share Plath’s elation in each published poem, read the recreation of her first suicide attempt with a tightening chest and reel through the night when she met Ted Hughes with drunken exultance.
2020. October. New Sylvia Plath biography by Heather Clark earns widespread acclaim. Critical acclaim has greeted a major biography of the poet and novelist Sylvia Plath, written by the American scholar Heather Clark, who is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the University of Huddersfield. Titled Red Comet: The Short and Blazing Art of Sylvia ...
Feb 26, 2023 · I Wanted the Impossible. Amy Clampitt's poetry career began late, but as a new biography attests, she was always a writer of deep ambition and erotic intensity. BY Heather Clark. Originally Published: February 27, 2023. Amy Clampitt. Courtesy of Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation. In the prologue of Nothing Stays Put (Knopf, 2023), his lush ...
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Jan 11, 2021 · Jan 11, 202111:47 AM. Heather Clark. Carolyn Simpson. On this week’s episode of Working, Rumaan Alam spoke with writer and poetry professor Heather Clark about her new Sylvia Plath biography ...
