A review by owenpeak
Crossing the Water by Sylvia Plath

4.0

A very mixed bag but overall a pleasant read. I prefer Plath most when her poems home in on a specific character and evoke a very specific time and place; the more abstract pieces were sometimes a bit overwhelming and hard to grasp what was being portrayed. Many parts of Plath’s verse were surprisingly witty and the overall references to mythology and nature were fun. My personal favourites were: In Plaster, The Surgeon at 2 a.m., Widow, Mirror and Zoo Keeper’s Wife.