Since 1994 Sylvia Plath has been a massive part of my life. For Christmas that year I received a copy of The Bell Jar, The Collected Poems , and Paul Alexander's Rough Magic . Within a year I had, at a minimum, Letters Home , the yellow paperback copy of The Journals, Susan Van Dyne's Revising Life , and Anne Stevenson's Bitter Fame . Like the speaker of Plath's poem "The Colossus", if you allow me to slightly fudge my numbers, for Thirty years now I have labored To dredge the silt from your throat. I am none the wiser. In November 2021, when Gary Leising tweeted that he was gaining momentum to have a course on Sylvia Plath added to the permanent curriculum at Utica University where he is, among other things, Distinguished Professor of English, I started to look at my accumulation of books by and about Sylvia Plath differently. That is, I started to think about placing my collection somewhere where they may be made both more use of and better use of th
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