sylvia plath

really interesting podcast re sylvia plath. i'm not the biggest plath fan, in part because of the baggage plath comes with and, for a long while i avoided her because, as a man, it just didn't seem possible to enage with her. i do like anne sexton tho and it was interesting reading her letters that the antagonistic relationship i'd been led to believe in, wasn't really supported by the primary material. plus, the sylvia plath that emerged, was much more the version that emerges in this podcast - a vibrant, interesting writer, rather than someone who killed herself and lived in the shadow of some bloke. 

back in the day i parallel read anne sexton's biography, her letters and the poems and it was a great exercise. on the basis of this i really fancy going back to plath and doing the same