Loving Sylvia Plath

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The Trouble-Making Mothers
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"Life begins at 30."
In Memoriam
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We Need To Talk About That Episode of Dickinson With Sylvia Plath
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Against Hagiography
In Defense of Love
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A Brief Note About Forgetting
In his 1982 foreword to the first, heavily abridged publication of Sylvia Plath’s Journals, Ted Hughes wrote that he had burned one of Plath’s last…
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Sylvia Plath & Anti-fascism
Or, why the time to speak out is now
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What do we do now?
Yesterday as I walked to my car in weather so unseasonably warm, it frightened me, I thought of my former student, Rawan.
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What does it matter if a book gets written?
Notes from isolation
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Some Thoughts On Survival
Happy Summer, Plathies.
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Never again for anyone
Never again is now
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Escape Routes
Sylvia Plath, Free Speech, & How We Survive
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"There's no getting up it by the words you know."
A sort-of end-of-year post
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