Crossing the Water, Sylvia Plath. Faber and Faber, 1971. Second impression. Dust jacket contains minimal signs of shelf wear. Front board has water stain on lower right corner. Good book in very good jacket.
Published posthumously in 1971, Crossing the Water is Plath's collection of transitional poems that were written while she wrote the collection for her best known collection, Ariel (1965).
“What am I doing
with a lung full of dust
and a tongue of wood,
Knee-deep in the cold
swamped by flowers?"
— Sylvia Plath, from "Leaving Early,” Crossing the Water. (1971).