Contains Mild Peril by Fran Lock Jo Brandon The Letters of Sylvia Plath

The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956

ageing and mortality

Philip Levine and Denise Levertov

and blooming

The poems delight in the things of the earth

Contains Mild Peril by Fran Lock Jo Brandon The Letters of Sylvia PlathContains Mild Peril is a book permeated by anxiety, not fatal threat, but the ambient manic hum of daily life. Precarity does something to us at the level of language; it shapes the ways we see and say. Our current climate political, environmental, economic engenders its own nervy music. These poems channel this collective apprehension in ways both deeply personal and instantly familiar. It is a collection that abounds in loss, in a sense of being