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turned depression into the sharpest sentences in american poetry, then the oven became the punchline nobody wanted.
means sylvia plath: poet and novelist whose confessional, precision-cut work made personal devastation into formal art.
from born 1932 boston, prodigy and perfectionist by ten, published obsessively, married ted hughes in 1956, died by suicide in 1963 at 30, leaving ariel to be published posthumously and mythologized forever.
the bell jarpublished under pseudonym, first novel, semi-autobiographical breakdown
pulitzerwon posthumously in 1982, first ever for poetry
arielhughes edited and reordered it before publishing
daddyone poem, endless college essays forever