The woman next to me was astonishing in her stillness. She appeared perfectly composed, quiet, almost fixed in her concentration. She was softly pretty, her camel's hair coat slung over the back of her chair and a pile of books in front of her. Her notebook was open, her pencil poised. Everything seemed neat. This was Sylvia Plath.
Her Husband: Hughes and Plath—A Marriage. By Diane Middlebrook. Viking, October 2003. $25.95 Collected Poems. By Ted Hughes. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 2003. $50
The lunatic, the lover and the poet, Are of imagination all compact. â [...]
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