Sylvia Plath

Digested classics: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

guardian.co.uk, UK
It was the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs. I couldn't stop wondering what it would be like to be burned alive. It was like the first time Buddy Willard showed me a cadaver; I felt as if I was carrying the head around with me on a string. ...

Sylvia Plath's son Nicholas, suicide at 47

Monsters and Critics.com
By April MacIntyre Mar 23, 2009, 15:24 GMT The legacy of Sylvia Plath took another sad turn, as her son Nicholas Hughes killed himself recently in Alaska. The Plath story is fraught with depression, infidelity and suicide. The family history of poets ...

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THEATER REVIEW: "Edge"

Rochester City Newspaper, NY
"Edge" is a one-woman show in which Marcy Savastano portrays poet Sylvia Plath on the last day of her life. It's a little more complicated than that - Plath seems quasi-omniscient, telling the audience details about the future she couldn't possibly ...

Time to start talking and listening again

Irish Independent, Ireland
She sifts carefully through the stories and the evidence, mixing profiles of high-fliers Marilyn Monroe, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolfe, plus "ordinary" women, driven demented by extraordinary pressures, (sexual abuse rearing its ugly head repeatedly), ...

Blizzard of lunacy

Edmonton Sun,  Canada
How about Edgar Allen Poe, Lord Byron or Sylvia Plath? But Sharplin's diabolically clever play (subtitled A Mystery) neatly moves beyond the cliche. It's as if the Edmonton playwright lays down a series of strings and then in Act II, ...

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International Herald Tribune, France
LONDON â€" A British newspaper is reporting that the son of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes has committed suicide in the US The Times of London says in Monday editions that Nicholas Hughes hanged himself at his home in Alaska. AP Text: Coverage planned ...

Former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky at Falmouth High School

Falmouth Bulletin, MA
One of the participants, Seph Rodney, spoke of how he came upon the Sylvia Plath poem "Nick and the Candlestick" one night when he returned home from a disappointing date. Rodney said he once thought of poetry as "highfalutin" but was struck by the ...

Wandering ramblings from a woman in Wells

Albert Lea Tribune, MN
Sylvia Plath “The wastebasket is a writer’s best friend.” â€" Isaac Bashevis Singer “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” â€" William Wordsworth “Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. ...
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