Sunday, September 14, 2014

Ted Hughes' "Birthday Letters"

   I am savoring these poems. Hughes has an innovative style and I believe I will experiment with it as soon as the muse strikes me. Hughes was Poet Laureate when he broke his silence about his marriage to Sylvia
Plath through these poems. He always addresses her as "you" in them.
   Ironically and interesting enough, a poet friend of mine is reading Plath's journals right now.

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