One of America’s most promising young poets, severed from her racial/cultural roots by the alien presence in the West, searched desperately to find those roots, then gave up in despair.

by Vic Olvir
from National Vanguard, No. 97, October 1983, pp. 7–14
transcribed by Matthew Peters

THIS PAST February 11 was the 20th anniversary of the suicide in London of the American poet and writer Sylvia Plath. Since her death a continuous stream of biographies, critical surveys, and memoirs — as well as earlier unpublished stories, letters, and journals by the poet herself — has issued from the publishers, finally allowing Sylvia Plath the fame and recognition . . . → Read More: Sylvia Plath: Stasis in Darkness