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THERE IS a quality to the voice on this record--the voice of Sylvia Plath reading her own poetry--that can only be described as frightening. It is not just the eerieness of hearing a voice from beyond the grave, of listening to a woman expose her obsession with the subject of death three months before she takes her own life. The really scary, chilling thing about this voice is its profound bitterness--a sort of challenge to all comers that commands sympathy at the same time that it defies it, that attracts as it repels, that bores directly...
...INTERVIEW begins rather inauspiciously, with Orr asking in the stiffest of BBC manners, "Sylvia"--pause--"what started you writing poetry?" But Plath soon takes control of the situation, her conversational voice a little tamer than her reading voice but her imperious, arrogant manner just as fascinating and repellent. She sounds much older than 30 somehow, as if she had reached the last of the nine lives she endows herself with in "Lady Lazarus...
...Sylvia Porter' s Money Book, Porter...
...Sylvia Porter's Money Book, Porter...
...Sylvia Porter's Money Book, Porter...