On this week’s show, Rachael and John read the poems of Sylvia Plath’s first book, step 1 in trying to appreciate Sylvia Plath’s career as a poet and novelist as Plath herself experienced the creation and presentation of that work, not in the light of her mythology and hagiography.

TEXTS DISCUSSED




NOTES
| The Drunken Odyssey’s Sylvia Plathing |
| 1. The Colossus and Other Poems (Episode 685) |
| 2. Loving Sylvia Plath (with Emily Van Duyne) (Episode 693) |
| 3. The Bell Jar (Episode 712) |
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