The Colossus and Other Poems

With this startling, exhilarating book of poems, which was first published in 1960, Sylvia Plath burst into literature with spectacular force.

In such classics as "The Beekeeper's Daughter", "The Disquieting Muses", "I Want, I Want", and "Full Fathom Five", she writes about sows and skeletons, fathers and suicides, about the noisy imperatives of life and the chilly hunger for death.