Sylvia Plath: Drawings Sue Orr The novel is partially based

The novel is partially based on Plath's own life and has become a modern classic

while at times referencing figuration and landscape in highly personal ways

The monograph

a young gun from Tokyo

The book features descriptions of all of the images and three generously illustrated essays on the making of this series

Sylvia Plath: Drawings Sue Orr The novel is partially basedIn 1956 Sylvia Plath wrote to her mother, Aurelia Plath: 'I feel I'm developing a kind of primitive style of my own which I am very fond of. Wait til you see. The Cambridge sketch was nothing compared to these.' Sylvia Plath cited art as her deepest source of inspiration but, while her poetry is celebrated around the world, her drawings are little known. This volume brings together drawings from 1955 to 1957, the period she spent on a Fulbright