In a nutshell: February 11 marked 50 years since poet Sylvia Plath killed herself. Her posthumously published book of poems, Ariel, was a landmark of the new confessional poetry that helped change the face of contemporary verse.
This audio piece was broadcast on All These Considered on Tuesday evening.
Reading Sylvia Plath 50 Years After Her Death Is A Different Experience : NPRPoet Tess Taylor reflects on how we read Sylvia Plath’s poetry, 50 years after her death.
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This essay appeared on NPR.org on Monday.
On The 50th Anniversary Of Sylvia Plath’s Death, A Look At Her Beginning : NPRExcept for the harsh music of “sluttish” and “rutted” raking across that comma, these lines, which sharply describe but still lack a reason for their sharpness, could have come from one of any number of skillfully written books of midcentury American poetry that are now forgotten.
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