"[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop."

You may also like:

• 

  C.D. Wright
  Poet

• 

  Claudia Rankine
  Poet

• 

  Elizabeth Bishop
  Poet

• 

  Fanny Howe
  Poet

• 

  Louise Glück
  Poet

• 

  Rachel Kushner
  Writer

• 

  Sappho
  Lyric poet

• 

  Simone Weil
  Philosopher

• 

  Virginia Woolf
  Writer