Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath Free Audiobook Download by Heather Clark

This is a gorgeous book with stunning cover art and the narration by Laura Jennings is nothing short of superb.

Sylvia Plath's poetry and prose is known to be hauntingly powerful, but few realize that her actual life was just as complex and challenging. The author of this biography recounts the struggles Plath experienced with mental health, family relationships, poverty, and motherhood in a deeply compelling way.

Sylvia Plath was an American poet who lived from 1932 to 1963. Born in Boston and raised in Maryland, she spent much time at home as a child due to her mother's poor health. Sylvia began writing when she was 15 years old and became known for her virtuosic use of form and meter. Her work reflects the confessional mode, which includes many darkly neurotic themes of suicide, mental illness, isolation, aloneness, loss of self-control and control over life itself, and the futility of love and sex--particularly hers with Ted Hughes.

The short life of Sylvia Plath has been well chronicled, but rarely does one get to hear her jaw-dropping prose in their own voice. Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark is a new audiobook that brings the author's work to life, and it's narrated by a woman with a strong, clear voice who keeps the pace moving along for ten hours.

In the first book about Sylvia Plath, poet Heather Clark finds the voice of the woman who has been silenced for decades. In this work of fiction set in 1958 in the South, Plath's poems are read to us by a Southern belle named "Laura Jennings." Clark takes advantage of her position as narrator to subtly undercut some of the standard iconography of female femininity and middle-class propriety that surrounds Plath's life and career—and also to emphasize how much she is always on the verge, constantly flirting with an extreme form of self-destruction.

This biography of Sylvia Plath's, written by a close friend of the poet, is one of the most interesting in the English language. The narrator brings out all of the events in detail and engages you with a personal voice. The short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath is for anyone who loves poetry and wants to know more about a great poetic mind.