Born of Wonder

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Mass for Sylvia Plath on her birthday

Mass for Sylvia Plath on her birthday

rejecting the myth and Questioning the 'sacrifice' True Art requires

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Katie Marquette
Oct 27, 2024
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October 27th. Sylvia Plath’s birthday. She would have been 92 years old -

If it hadn’t been for the cold night, the abandonment, the illness, the irrevocable choice that in a strange twist of fate, made her into a literary immortal. Death of the body, birth of the Art. Or so the story went.

Beloved, certainly, but also the subject of macabre fascination,…

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