The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (Sylvia Plath)
You're constantly reminded of grief, sorrow, complexity. Heart wrenching. You sometimes forget that she was a talented artist. Beautiful sketches. Bounces between revisions of poems, long form entries, and short staccato phrases. Favorite fragments:
"Breakfast: grapefruit and black coffee
Washed hair, smelled like lemons
Wrote a few lines, none good
Felt restless. Played Chopin"
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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Sara Bursavich
“When I say I read this book religiously, I mean I read random pages from it each morning while drinking my coffee, like my Methodist grandmother used to read Bible devotionals. I love Plath's writing style and credit her as a great inspiration for my own journaling practice. She writes so elegantly about the experience of being a girl and becoming a woman, in a way that feels universally applicabl”
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