Sylvia Plath: What We're Reading

Paula Van der Oest's “Black Butterflies” is a rending biographical portrait of the poet Ingrid Jonker, who has been called the South African Sylvia Plath because both women destroyed themselves at an early age and had what might be called “daddy issuesJust as, say, Sylvia Plath's renown has been boosted by her status as a feminist martyr as much as by her controversial suicide, Kerouac's popularity has been augmented not only by his drunken exploits, but by his being seen

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