ophelia
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The Life Jacket
How later you learned grief and love are partners too. How love held you through grief’s fire.
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Women, Writing, and Madness
I found a precedent for girls like me in the work of confessional poets Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. They represented a respectable compromise between “real literature” and my irrepressible tendency to let the personal creep into my writing. I…