Word: plath
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...inception not to "open its pages to those whose only merits lie in their anguish, their fervor, and their experimentation," is not the biggest nor the most prestigious of the literary-periodical set, but it has nurtured the early careers of such now familiar names as W.S. Merwin, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and Wallace Stevens. And it has the distinction of having chosen a title that doesn't sound nearly as quaint as those of the other new magazines Time wrote about that week: Tiger's Eye, Masses & Mainstream, Instead and even that bible of the Beat Generation, Neurotica...
...SYLVIA PLATH...
...much involved in the next book really—because the production of the book takes a bit of time. So you’re already in your next book. I was already in the midst of a book about Robert Lowell, [Anne] Sexton, and [Sylvia] Plath. THC: How was it to be Robert Lowell’s protégé and work with Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath? KS: I came to Boston on this wonderful fellowship to study with [Robert Lowell] and he didn’t know what to do with me because...
...sliding away in the receding surf. So in the end, there's no center to take things in and process them and view the world. That was the first kind of scary, weird thing. Even more alarming, when I was 16 or 17, I suddenly, having just read Sylvia Plath and identifying with her, got up in the middle of the day [at school] and started walking home several miles away, something I'd never done before. I was a good girl - I never skipped school. And as I was walking, the houses got very ominous and foreboding...
...couple of times before we moved [to Wales] and planted and gardened it. I turned her grave into a sort of flower bed. I went up there and it was hard to find it. A stranger looked at me and said, "oh, if you're looking for the Plath grave, it's over there." I hadn't said anything. I realize that it's a tourist attraction. I really find that very, very difficult. It impersonalizes...