“On the Decline of Oracles” by Sylvia Plath
from Salon Audio/MP3Lit's poetry collection
      Called our “Queen of Sorrows” by Joyce Carol Oates, Sylvia Plath is an icon of suicide & poetics. Her siren songs have lured young women to poetry for nearly half a century now, & in these recordings her voice perfectly matches the beauty & the diamond hardness of her poems.

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