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Violence
Barely any
Plath's suicide referenced
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief sexual references
Substance Use
Barely any
Drinking
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Grief, guilt, Plath's suicide, and the weight of two literary lives
What this book is about
Hughes's 1998 poetry collection, published weeks before his death, addresses Sylvia Plath directly in eighty-eight poems. Emotionally intense, with some dark content. For older teens and adults.
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Suicide of Sylvia Plath referenced
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