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...SYLVIA PLATH...
Edited with preface by AURELIA PLATH...
...Plath: To sing to a group of people--exactly, exactly...
Much of the interview is quite revealing and its appearance on this record is particularly appropriate, because in it Plath talks about the importance of reading poetry, and particularly her recent poetry, aloud. "I have found myself having to read these poems aloud to myself," she tells Orr. "My first book, The Colossus, I can't read any of the poems aloud now. I didn't write them to be read aloud. In fact, they quite privately bore me." Later, Plath seems to be intrigued by the idea of oral poetry...
...Plath's song is a dirge, difficult and painful to listen to, but painfully beautiful as well. In those last feverish months of her life, it's extraordinarily fortunate that someone managed to entrap the white hot sparks that Plath was sending off with such dangerously lavish intensity. Now those sparks have at last been released, and Sylvia Plath can "come across" to her audience as she really intended...