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“The Journals are, in their unabridged state, an astonishing body of work. We talk about how poets are born, not made, but what I always take away from every page of the Journals—and it’s a serious slab of a book—is the extent to which Plath was both born and self-made.” Read more...
Tim Kendall, Literary Scholar
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House of Hunger
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