Sylvia Plath on Living with the Darkness and Making Art from the Barely Bearable Lightness of Being
The Marginalian · 27 Oct 2026

Sylvia Plath on Living with the Darkness and Making Art from the Barely Bearable Lightness of Being

When the twenty-two-year-old Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932–February 11, 1963) wrote to her mother one bleak January day, both women were wading through a darkness of the soul.


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