‘I want my career, my children and a free supple life’: Sylvia Plath’s radical reinvention
Too often framed as a tragic icon or a victim of domesticity, the poet remade herself and her work at the start of the 60s, as a new collection will show
by Helen Bain
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Thank you for bringing this poet to the light. She was unknown to me previously, as well as "confessional poetry" (style).
On follow-up, I read her poem "Colossus". Very moving, to me at least. Thanks!