the pleasure of odds and ends
For more drawings by Sylvia Plath, go to
from about.com Poetry :: http://poetry.about.com/b/2013/11/27/sylvia-plaths-ink-drawings.htm?nl=1
Plath’s work in the visual arts has recently been much in the public eye. In 2007, Oxford University Press came out with Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath’s Art of the Visual, in which editors Kathleen Connors and Sally Bayley show us many of her drawings and paintings and set them in the context of her writings (
). Then in 2011, a selection of 44 pen-and-ink drawings, never before shown, were exhibited at the Mayor Gallery in London, and both The Telegraph and Flavorwireposted galleries of images from that exhibition that are still available online. The newest splash of Plath’s art into public view is the 
portfolio of drawings from the early years of her marriage to Ted Hughes, just released by her daughter Frieda Hughes and accompanied by selections from her letters and diary entries of the time (). The drawings are lovely, precise and hard-edged, very like the crystalline poems in Ariel.
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