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Just because connoisseurs of poetry rarely read the National Enquirer doesn't mean they don't crave sensationalism. Witness the enduring legend of Sylvia Plath more than three decades after the writer's death. Certainly Plath's reputation as a fierce, accomplished poet has endured, but it is the shocking story of her life that really fascinates the literary public...
DIED. AURELIA SCHOBER PLATH, 87, educator and editor; in Needham, Massachusetts. The Boston-born mother of poet Sylvia Plath, Aurelia Plath compiled Letters Home, a collection of her daughter's correspondence from 1950 until Sylvia's suicide in 1963. Published in 1975, Letters Home revealed a writer torn by insecurity, ambition -- and a heartbreaking need to please her mother. The book was eventually adapted for the stage...
...Anders at 7 p.m. and "Gas, Food, Lodging" at 8 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 12. "The Ballad of Little Jo" at 1, 3:15, 5:30 and 7:45 on Saturday, Nov. 13. "The Gift" at 10 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 12 and Saturday, Nov. 13. Starring Katharine Hepburn: "Sylvia Scarlett" at 4:05 and 7:35 and "Christopher Strong" at 2:30, 6 and 9:25 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 14. Film Noir: "Lady from Shanghai" at 4 and 7:55 and "Gilda" at 5:45 and 9:35 Vamps and Other Lesbians: "Pandora...
...Sylvia Yanagisako and other scholars have noted that the quasi-mythological status of our male ancestors who came to this country as laborers, gold-miners, merchants and laundry owners is built on the unacknowledged presence of the women in our families who worked long hours for nothing, cooked the food, scrubbed the clothes, carried and raised the children, and bore the blows, abuse and neglect not only from our grandfathers, but also from the larger white society which refused to see our grandfathers as real men and refused to treat any of us as real human beings...
...poetry's power, which began when she took down an anthology of American verse from the bookshelf in her family's home in Akron. After that, her otherwise strict parents made no attempt to censor what she read, and she read everything from Gone With the Wind to Sylvia Plath. "I remember reading ((Plath's)) poem Daddy, which ends, 'Daddy, Daddy, you bastard, I'm through,' " says Dove. "I realized that you don't have to be polite in poetry, and I couldn't get enough of it after that...