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Birthday Letters

by Ted Hughes

The Manchester Guardian (U.K.), Sarah Maguire
Grief takes time. Thirty-five years after the death of Sylvia Plath, her husband Ted Hughes has created the most stunning literary sensation I can remember with the publication of Birthday Letters, a sequence of 88 chronologically arranged poems provoked by their passionate, tempestuous marriage and by the after-shocks of Plath's suicide. These are poems of astonishing tragic power, a force intensified by their sudden appearance. Birthday Letters is a shock. Which is highly appropriate, given how full of shocks the book is... In the end, what is so shocking--and so moving--about Birthday Letters is the depth and range of its emotional openness. These are poems full of tenderness and anger, warmth and despair.

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