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Vijay Seshadri Reads Sylvia Plath

The New Yorker: Poetry

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The New Version of Halloween

In the january first 20, nineteenth issue of the magazine, the new yorker published your poem, cliff hanging. Before you do, is there anything you want us to know about the poem? Ah, well, the reason i chose the plat poem was that i was thinking of reading this. And in some sense, this might sound crazy, but there was a certain point at which i became terrified of the stanza break.

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