Crossing the Water

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book poetry collection

"Crossing the Water" is a posthumously published collection of poems by Sylvia Plath that showcases her stark, vivid imagery and evolving poetic voice in the years leading up to her death.

Aliases (1)

Crossing the Water (poem) ×1

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book → poetry collection →
author	Sylvia Plath →
compiledBy	Ted Hughes →
containsWork	Blackberrying → Crossing the Water (poem) → In Plaster → Insomniac → The Babysitters → The Moon and the Yew Tree → The Surgeon at 2 a.m. →
countryOfOrigin	United Kingdom →
follows	The Colossus and Other Poems →
genre	poetry →
hasCriticalReception	acclaimed →
hasISBN	9780571090593 →
hasPageCount	64 →
hasPoeticStyle	confessional poetry →
hasTheme	creative struggle → female experience → isolation → mental illness → transition →
language	English →
literaryMovement	confessionalism → modernism →
mediaType	hardcover → paperback →
notableFor	evolving poetic voice → stark imagery → vivid imagery →
originalPublicationMedium	print →
partOfBibliographyOf	Sylvia Plath →
precedes	Winter Trees →
publicationStatus	posthumous →
publicationYear	1971 →
publisher	Faber and Faber →
setting	England → United States →
subjectMatter	death → identity → nature → psychological struggle →
timeOfWriting	early 1960s →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Crossing the Water ("Crossing the Water (poem)") →	containsWork
Sylvia Plath →	notableWork
Winter Trees →	relatedWork