For Women?s History Month: Sylvia Plath
Posted by Village Poet on March 7th, 2007 at 11:03pm
Two millennia after Sappho, Sylvia Plath certainly occupies a more recent historical niche, but it?s history nonetheless, not even our present century. She was the brilliant young confessional poet who…
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