About the Book: Sylvia Plath on Writing
Selected with a foreword by Maura Dooley
Sylvia Plath always knew that she wanted to be a writer and she always wrote.
This unique gathering of excerpts from her journals, letters, poems and prose
offers razor-sharp, inspiring, amusing and painful insights into what it means
to commit to a writing life. Plath wants, above all, to be truthful and exact,
whether unlocking a childhood memory, exulting in new landscapes and lives or
squaring up to marriage and motherhood. She doesnt think poems should be all
that chaste; and reaches past decorum and convention to capture her subject
exactly