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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath · 2019 · 768 pages
"Published in their entirety for the first time, Sylvia Plath's journals provide a portrait of the writer who was to produce in the last seven months of her life some of the most extraordinary poems of the twentieth century. Faithfully transcribed from the twenty-three journals and journal fragments owned by Smith College, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath includes two journals that Plath's husband, Ted Hughes, unsealed just before his death in 1998.".
"A heavily abridged edition of Plath's diaries was published in 1982. Roughly two-thirds of this new unabridged edition is material that has never before been made public, revealing more fully the intensity of the poet's personal and literary struggles, and providing fresh insight into both her frequent desperation and the bravery with which she faced her demons.
With its haunting, vibrant, and brutally honest prose, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath is essential reading for all who have been moved and fascinated by Plath's life and work."--BOOK JACKET.
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Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints)
“There's that wonderful quotation from Sylvia Plath where she describes the way living as a woman stifles an adventurous spirit and her longing for a male experience. - [Narrator] "Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle "with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars "to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording "all this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, "a female always supposedly in danger "of assault and battery. "My consuming interest in men and their lives is often "misconstrued as a desire to seduce them "or as an invitation to intimacy. "Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody as deeply as I can. "I want to be able to sleep in an open field, "to travel west, to walk freely at night."”
