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jayyenn's review against another edition
5.0
Really interesting autobiographical work where Queyras reworks poems of Plath with varying amounts of loyalty to the original. She draws parallels between her life and Plath’s, engages with her biographers and critics and also writes from other's viewpoints. I'd like to go back to this for a closer reading and comparison with the original poems.
littlebookjockey's review
2.0
Full review at Little Book Jockey. At first I really liked the parallels to Plath’s own poems and life; however, the more I read, the more I wanted it to end–and it’s only 96 pages. I think Queyras may have taken the motif too far. It was stretched so thin that I got tired of it, even though I’m interested in Plath myself and have written a long essay on her poetry. Even so, Queyras has some great ideas and lines in this collection.
jenna0010's review against another edition
4.0
Before I opened this book I reread Ariel. My mind is at a different place now. I know anger and rage and Ariel hooked itself under my ribs, a shell containing a sea of rage and longing and wanting more and nothing all at once. Sina Queyras's My Ariel dwells in the stormy questions regarding Sylvia's life, her art, her afterlives, all the while exploring the corners of her own self as a female poet, a mother, a lover, a fragile mind. This book is a fistful of feeling, of anger, of circling around the self, trying to find that centre of the hive from which all this feeling stems, only to find emptiness, emptiness and more uncertainty and doubt.
dkevanstoronto's review against another edition
4.0
Enjoyable but a highly personal poetic work that examines life from a postmodern, whimsical and physical perspective. Its not for everyone's taste but I do think there is some value here.
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