For @literaryhub.bsky.social I wrote about a Sylvia Plath poem I found in Plath’s new archives at Yale. The poem, written when she was a teenager, frames death as merely a stopgap in an ongoing life.
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On the Life-and-Death Cycles at the Heart of Sylvia Plath’s Work
In 1971, eight years after Sylvia Plath died, a dispute over the backstory of her death broke out between her husband Ted Hughes and the poet and critic Al Alvarez. Alvarez, a friend of Plath, publ…
