Dear Plathians, I meant to send this out last night to honor Lady Lazarus, AKA My Own Personal Jesus, but, like Sylvia, I am a big fan of leg of lamb and stayed too late at my mother’s Easter dinner to get it done. So here we are. In racing toward the finish of LOVING SYLVIA PLATH, I have been scouring Plath’s journals, reminding me how misread that book is by the general public. The back cover blurb of Plath’s
5 Times Sylvia Plath Was Awesome
Remember the story about A Alvarez, and Sylvia's clever foot? I prefer to think that true. And pretty damn awesome.
Love this.
And fuck Dido Merwin.
your description of meeting yourself as a character at a faculty party is hilarious! i'm loving these. they're so smart.