Sylvia Plath: Drawings Sue Orr Sebald can turn anything to

Sebald can turn anything to poetry--even the alleged health benefits of Marienbad's Auschowitz springs become "a positive verbal coloratura of medical and diagnostic terms" (luckily

by the 1920s

The Grapes of Wrath includes a critical introduction by Robert DeMott in Penguin Modern Classics

is living with her young son in a new neighborhood of Naples and working at a local factory

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 Sebald can turn anything toIn 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