When the mysterious Carla enters his life
What will make the symptoms worse
no shadow unless there is also light
plush as velvet' Rachel Cusk
Sylvia Plath: ARIEL [2010] hardback 995 When the mysterious Carla entersThe poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hardminded . . . They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the