What would have happened if Sylvia Plath had somehow staved off her terminal depression and hung on for a few more years instead of sticking her head in an oven and killing herself in February 1963? At the time of her death, during an unusually bitter winter, the troubled Boston poet was raising two young children by herself in London, far from her family and friends, while separated from her unfaithful husband, Ted Hughes. Although Hughes was still the more critically recognized and popular writer, Plath was in the middle of conjuring the astonishing series of poems that ended up in her classic... More >>>