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...Dark By Laura Kasischke This book contains, among many other wonderful things, the greatest poem ever written about spring break, which begins, "I'm sixteen in the Bahamas. A drunk girl/ on a balcony in a sundress/ with a pina colada." Kasischke's verses walk that perfect Plathian line between the everyday - making macaroni and cheese, Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection...
This book contains, among many other wonderful things, the greatest poem ever written about spring break, which begins, "I'm sixteen in the Bahamas. A drunk girl/ on a balcony in a sundress/ with a pina colada." Kasischke's verses walk that perfect Plathian line between the everyday--making macaroni and cheese, getting pulled over for speeding--and the eternal, the plainspoken and the lyrical, the comfortable and the abyss of loss that lies just beneath it: "All morning I try to kill a fly in the kitchen,/ but it isn't ready...
...guilt. He grants no interviews and has written no memoir. Instead of Hughes, Plath's biographers have had to deal with Olwyn, Hughes' cranky older sister, who has served as a combative intermediary for her absent brother. Malcolm gets no closer to the poet than the other Plathian detectives who have stalked him. She is reduced to lurking around the outside of his British home, uninvited...
Sylvia arrived trailing three scholarships and several writing prizes. The Plaths had no money, and she worried continually about it. She owed her "charmed Plathian existence" to her schoolteacher mother's efforts, and she was driven by gratitude. "You are the most wonderful mummy that a girl ever had," she wrote, "and I only hope I can continue to lay more laurels at your feet...
...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
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