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Vijay Seshadri Reads Sylvia Plath

The New Yorker: Poetry

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Is It a Dickenson Poem?

There's that miles davis aspect of her, you know. And a andthers a silence, which myles davis, in a silent way, sur he's just as interested in those gaps between the notes. That elizabeth bishop, i don't think, is sylvia plath in these poems, is not a social poet. I mean, thereis no way you can kind of construe that. Do you think it's like a a dickinson in that way? Wellye. But there's a terror that dickenson is happy to tell you about, we're happy to describe. She's asking us to come to her in some way.

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