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This is his only book of poems, published in 1973. A year earlier his parents died, a year later he shot himself. Obv heavily influenced by Sylvia Plath‘s Ariel, this is nevertheless a haunting homage to death in many forms, the most striking being a lady in ancient Egypt describing her embalming as a seductive preparation for eternal beauty
Read more @ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69134/the-rebirth-of-a-suicidal-genius
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