I’m an intelligence
Joanna Biggs: Sylvia Plath at 86, 20 December 2018
The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Vol. I: 1940-56
edited by Peter Steinberg and Karen Kukil.
Faber, 1388 pp., £35, September 2017,978 0 571 32899 4 Show More
edited by Peter Steinberg and Karen Kukil.
Faber, 1388 pp., £35, September 2017,
The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Vol. II: 1956-63
edited by Peter Steinberg and Karen Kukil.
Faber, 1025 pp., £35, September 2018,978 0 571 33920 4 Show More
edited by Peter Steinberg and Karen Kukil.
Faber, 1025 pp., £35, September 2018,
“... Sylvia Plath was scared of letters. The postman always announced his presence with a ‘burst of prophetic whistling’. In May 1958, eating a slice of toast with butter and strawberry jam before going to teach her class at Smith, she spotted the mailman with ‘a handful of flannel: circulars – soap-coupons, Sears sales, a letter from mother of stale news she’d already relayed over the phone, a card from Oscar Williams inviting us to a cocktail party in New York on the impossible last day of my classes ... ”
