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Letters to a Stranger
Letters to a Stranger: Poems | Thomas James
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A collection of the late poet's only published book is joined with thirteen uncollected poems, with poems touching upon transformation, suicide, and the eternal.
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4.5 out of 5
This is his only book of poems, published in 1973. A year earlier his parents died, a year later he shot himself. Obv heavily influenced by Sylvia Plath‘s Ariel, this is nevertheless a haunting homage to death in many forms, the most striking being a lady in ancient Egypt describing her embalming as a seductive preparation for eternal beauty
Read more @ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69134/the-rebirth-of-a-suicidal-genius

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