Mark,
we can agree to disagree about Sylvia Plath. I still find many of her
poems worthwhile--"Poppies in October," "Yew Trees," "Cut"--I am in the
middle of moving my office so I don't have the books on hand or I would
quote you some lines. But I would still teach some of these poems.I
think there is often a brilliant sense of metaphor that does not
function merely as decoration. It isn't surprising, really, that you
would object to Plath--your aesthetic being what I would call, broadly,
"objectivist" & Plath is I agree a subjective poet. My problem with many
of the comments on her the last day or so is that she has been dismissed
for who she was, not what she wrote. At least you have the honesty to
address the poems, not the figure. (This is what you urged me to do with
Chas. Olson some months back & I have been following through.)
Joe
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Joseph Duemer
School of Liberal Arts-5750
Clarkson University
Potsdam NY 13699
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