Plath, Sylvia (Vol. 9) - Plath, Sylvia 1932–1963
Plath, Sylvia 1932–1963
American poet, novelist, and short story writer, Plath, sometimes called an "Extremist" for her poems of despair and death, collected fragments of her life and created from them a poetry both intensely personal and technically complex. She will probably be best remembered for her autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar. She has written under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. (See also CLC, Vols. 1, 2, 3, 5, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 19-20; Contemporary Authors Permanent Series, Vol. 2.)
The courting of experience that kills is characteristic of major poets, and even if we discount the artist's hindsight, Sylvia Plath seems to have been so preoccupied from the beginning.
Breath, that is the first thing. Something is breathing. My own breath? The breath of my mother? No, something else, something larger, farther, more serious, more weary….
That breath,...
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