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...world of poetry were a monarchy, Frieda Hughes would certainly be a princess. A poet, children's book author and artist in her own right, Hughes, 46, is the daughter of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Her parents' tumultuous marriage, her father's infidelity, her mother's suicide when Frieda Hughes was three, and her parents' larger-than-life work (including her mother's semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar) have been the subject of dozens of books and movies. Now Hughes has broken her near silence about her own life and family drama, in her moving new book...
...recovered from his home by police suggests that his racist politics was more deeply rooted. His father had been a founding member of the Vlaams Blok, the anti-immigration, Flemish separatist party renamed Vlaams Belang, or Flemish Interest, in 2004 in a bid to broaden its appeal. His aunt, Frieda Van Themsche, is a VB member of the Belgian parliament. And VB is no fringe party: it got 24% of the Flemish vote in 2004 regional elections, making it the largest party in Flanders, Belgium's biggest and most prosperous region...
...have been given back the binder that was on her desk. Ariel: The Restored Edition (HarperCollins; 211 pages) prints the poems Plath chose for her book and in the order in which she gave them--the director's cut, as it were. It also includes a foreword by Frieda Hughes, the couple's daughter. Amazingly, before work began on the restored edition, Hughes, who is also a poet, had never read her mother's masterpiece. "Sometimes we have to wait until we're the right age for something," says Hughes, 44, who lives in Wales. "When you're a child...
...Frieda Hughes is inclined to be charitable toward her father, who did, after all, raise her after Plath's death. "Why would anybody in their right mind want to publish something that was mean and nasty about them?" she asks. "It's human nature not to want...
...beloved American poet Sylvia Plath COMMITTED SUICIDE IN 1963 after her husband Ted Hughes left her for another woman. What better way to commemorate this tragedy than by cashing in with a movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow? But Plath's daughter Frieda Hughes is outraged by the film, Ted and Sylvia. She has refused to allow the movie to quote from Plath's poetry, and she has written a poem of her own about it: "The peanut eaters, entertained/At my mother's death, will go home,/Each carrying their memory of her,/Lifeless--a souvenir./Maybe they'll buy the video...