{"product_id":"the-colossus","title":"The Colossus","description":"\u003cb\u003eWith this startling, exhilarating book of poems, which was first published in 1960, Sylvia Plath burst into literature with spectacular force. - \"[Her poems] have that exquisite, heart-breaking quality about them that has made Sylvia Plath our acknowledged Queen of Sorrows.\" --Joyce Carol Oates, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGraceful in their craftsmanship, wonderfully original in their imagery, and presenting layer after layer of meaning, the forty poems in \u003cb\u003eThe Colossus\u003c\/b\u003e are early artifacts of genius that still possess the power to move, delight, and shock.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52317670408408,"sku":"9780375704468","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0833\/0369\/4552\/files\/imageloader_ec3c4f48-175d-4b29-b904-efe9d2b5da9b.jpg?v=1787949713","url":"https:\/\/bigredbooks.shop\/products\/the-colossus","provider":"Big Red Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}