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Few would guess that poet Sylvia Plath traveled through the Mojave Desert one summer and was inspired to write “Sleep in the ...
Plath’s posthumous poetry collection changed the cultural landscape on its release in 1965. Its grace and power grip us still ...
I mentioned Sylvia Plath last week; I have a special fondness for what most people would consider — and what probably is — a minor poem in “Ariel,” her most lauded collection.
I really cherish that poem because I put a lot of me and all my belief systems into it… everything I care intensely for, and get angry about. I put all of that into that one last epic poem.
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The Silencing of Sylvia Plath
In the afterword to Loving Sylvia Plath, a book detailing the abuse that Plath suffered at the hands of her husband, the poet ...
Emily Van Duyne dives deep into the melodrama of Plath’s life, transforming it into a full-blown soap opera. Picture Sylvia Plath, not as the brooding poet we all know, but as a character in a daytime ...
‘Mothers of the Mind: The Remarkable Women Who Shaped Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie and Sylvia Plath’ By Rachel Trethewey The History Press, 368 pages Sylvia Plath often looked to the life and work ...
A viral TikTok theory speculates that Taylor Swift's new album 'The Tortured Poets Department' may actually be about poet Sylvia Plath.
Getting the News From Poets, in This Case Sylvia Plath and Anthony Hecht She regarded him as a condescending male, and he thought of her as catty and self-absorbed, as the author discloses in his ...