More than one decent way to drown

Author's name: Sylvia Plath Publisher: Jamal Publications for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2019 Literary classification: Poetry About the book: "Death is an art like everything else / And it is an art / I master exceptionally," Sylvia Plath writes in "The Lady Lazarus," the poem that nearly encapsulates Plath's relationship with death, which has been a fundamental nerve in her poetic work from the beginning until her early death. One of the most famous poets of the twentieth century, after her passing, and partly because of her manner of death, she attracted greater public and critical attention than she did in her lifetime, especially her story with her British poet husband T. H. Huxley, whose tense relationship with her, ending with their official divorce months before Plath's suicide, became a nearly permanent topic when talking about Plath the poet and writer, which long overshadowed her poetic achievement, and made the pens of biographers, articles, scandal seekers, and secret diggers much more preoccupied than the pens of poetry and literature critics. There on the dry high branch, a black crow crouches, bent, arranging and rearranging its feathers in the rain. I do not expect a miracle or an event to ignite the scene in my eyes, nor do I ask for more than this scene in the reckless weather, but I let the dotted papers fall as they are, without wonder or reverence.