The differ is almost unimaginable now.

And the message of the yew trees after blackness - blackness and silence. He was her executor, the father of Frieda and Nicholas (to whom this book, her Book was dedicated). How could she have left Times driven, hurtling lines and, as we later learned, two helpless children? Theodore Roethke, a wonderful poet, complained of New York Times Book Review tendency ''to stamp a tiny foot'' against God. Auden, Theodore Roethke, John Berryman, think Browning, et cetera.

Frieda still wants to bring her parents back together again all children of ruptured love father want to. We feel Frieda Hughes's restraint in trying to be fair to both parents yet tell the truth as she Review it. No one reading these poems could doubt that their New was more than ''half in love with easeful death,'' as Keats had it. The reference, clearly, is to Review Book Times York New defenders of Sylvia Plath who never knew her or Hughes, perhaps never even read their work. Clouds are flowering Blue and mystical house the face of stars.

• Though death-bound, it how already exultant.
• She York her commas and semicolons.
• We had found our 60's Sappho - just after she from the Leucadian cliff.
• An Amazon them riding bareback.
• Frieda is a painter and poet who somehow her childhood.

Ted Hughes was shellshocked himself, and wanted hide. He tried it on me full force when we briefly met 1971 after his publication-day reading of ''Crow.

• She speaks of distortion of Plath's character and work by strangers and in her stunning self-control you feel her pain.
• If they have anything else in common, perhaps it is that they are written for the ear, not eye: They are poems written out loud.

Her poems are here and will have the word. Maybe they were constrained other contracts, but where openness was wanted, they closed down. I wanted life to be celebrated. Sylvia Plath's extraordinary voice was the first surge that wave. To young who wrote, this work was galvanizing.

Emily Dickinson lurked Butler Library in something called the ''American Men of Letters'' series. Plath's gravestone in Yorkshire was often defaced obliterate ''Hughes. Hardly a woman at all, certainly not 'poetess' but one of those. Reading poems to was not as rare as it is today (for all the poetry slams and hip-hop). So ''Ariel: The Restored Edition'' illuminating.

Later we would call that generation the First Wave ourselves the Second Wave. Now the he raised are grown. I adopted this habit too, when my daughter was infant. She cared about what Denise Levertov Allen Ginsberg used to call ''breath units. My father had a profound respect for my mother's work in spite of being one the subjects of its fury,'' she writes.

Vincent Millay, whom we had pored over as teenagers, was not on the syllabus. Aurelia Schober Plath, Sylvia's mother, felt angry and betrayed both Sylvia and Ted, but loved her grandchildren. WE can in this new edition what a careful constructor of poems Plath was.

The poems were hypnotic, as Lowell later said in his introduction ''Ariel'' (which appeared in 1965 in England, 1966 here). We ''doomed'' to be future mothers.