The Serious World - Laura Read

The Serious World is a collection of epistolary poems written to Sylvia Plath about depression, therapy, friendship, family, and the struggling life of an artist. With humor, sensitivity, and deep reflection, Laura Read explores many themes including mental health, suicide, loss, feminism, motherhood, and aging, offering a fresh view of the world as seen through the feminist poet's searching spyglass. nReaching back into history to talk with nPlath and other historical figures who have suffered and wrote about their nsuffering, Read tries to make sense of what it's like to be alive and suffering nnow.

These deeply felt poems include language from Plath's The Bell nJar and poems about Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir, along with other nstrange bedfellows from pop culture who make appearances, among them Kenny nRogers, Dr. Seuss, Kurt Cobain, and Courtney Love.n nn