Word: plath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...searingly personal verse, including the Pulitzer-prizewinning Live or Die (1966); apparently by her own hand (carbon-monoxide inhalation); in Weston, Mass. Clearly intrigued in her poems by the thought of her own death, Sexton survived a number of suicide attempts. After the 1963 suicide of Fellow Poet Sylvia Plath, Sexton recalled discussions the two had had in the late 1950s: "We talked about death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawing to it like moths to a light bulb. Sucking...
...Cohen Library of New York's City College, where she works as a cataloguer, helped give a frame to her book. When she finished, she wrote about it to British Critic A. Alvarez, simply "because he liked and championed some of my favorite poets -Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, Berryman." Alvarez asked to see the manuscript, followed up with detailed criticism, then put Mrs. Mojtabai in touch with an agent and Nan Talese, his editor at Simon & Schuster...
Latterly, she has also become a symbolic figure to women's liberationists, who think of her as a victimized woman. Plath was broke and alone with her two small children when she died...
...women (Brenda Bruce, Estelle Kohler, Louise Jameson) have good voices, speak with commendable clarity, and represent varying facets of Sylvia Plath's personality. The stage is almost bone bare. The women wear what look like white nightgowns in the first act, and white surgical gowns and caps in Act II. This effects a contrast with the Stygian-dark moods and bloodletting images of the poems...
...hall of the Brooklyn Academy of Music in which Sylvia Plath is being presented offers audiences a tier of backless stone-hard benches set so closely together that one playgoer's knees poke into another playgoer's back. Combined with Plathian dementia, it is a rather grim evening for body and soul. ·T. F. Kalen