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Vijay Seshadri Reads Sylvia Plath

The New Yorker: Poetry

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The Poems of Bishop and Angmman

Bishop speaks of in an individual way, but of this tradition that some would say was exhausted. And i think she's speaking a lot of people, for people. The power is just in those leaps, you know, and in the will as to just say it. You can feel its flow. plath is using white space, and she's using angemman and a lot of her poems. But she's always pulling the poem back kind of into is phrase and into its stanza,. She's facing something else.

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