How to Be a Heroine on Ariel: “Famously, in ‘Ariel’ she merges with the horse she’s riding till they become an arrow, the dew and the morning.”
Just Kids on Ariel: “I gathered up my notebooks and found among them the copy of Sylvia Plath's Ariel that Robert bought me when we first met.”
Artful on Edge: “Sylvia Plath, in her poem Edge, one clearly heavily influenced by Rilke's Eurydice”
How to Be a Heroine on Fever 103°: “In ‘Fever 103°’ she wrote about ‘My selves dissolving, old whore petticoats’, just like Esther in New York, standing on the roof of her hotel and throwing all her fashionable clothes into the ni”
How to Be a Heroine on Lady Lazarus: “And if it fell apart, I could become Lady Lazarus, the fearsome virago of Plath’s late poem who rises out of ash, with flame-red hair.”
Hitch-22 on The Bell Jar: “When I myself first read The Bell Jar, the phrase of hers that most arrested me was the one with which she described her father's hometown.”