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New Sylvia Plath Book Published

Readers of Sylvia Plath will be given a new way to interact with Plath's poetry in Plath Libs, which was inspired by Mad Libs, created in 1953 by Leonard Stern and Roger Price.

The first book features five of Plath's works: "The Glutton", "Maudlin", "Metaphors", "The Hanging Man", and "Winter Trees". Let's say for example that in "The Glutton" that you did not like Plath's line-ending verb "slake"... Well, now you, the reader, can revise the poem yourself! Yee-haw! The entire poetic output of Plath is scheduled to be Plath-Libbed in a projected 2,999 more five-poem publications over the next 27 years.

The first book is available as a free PDF download for a limited time. Subsequent volumes will be sold exclusively at Wal-Mart for $17.99.


The cover was inspired by the unanimous success and support of the Faber edition of The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 1.

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  1. Peter Fydler01 April, 2018 09:56

    Ha ha ha. He he he. I'm the laughing clown and you can't hatch me.

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  2. Jacqueline01 April, 2018 21:07

    I was sitting here actually thinking about which words I would use to change her poems. Har har.

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  3. Unknown02 April, 2018 10:20

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  4. Annika03 April, 2018 06:35

    I love that you actually put together that pdf!

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  5. Peter K Steinberg03 April, 2018 09:02

    Thanks for your comments. I don't feel this is my best April Fool's post ever but I had fun doing it. The hardest part, I think, was trying to figure out the right parts of speech and that primarily because I can barely construct a proper sentence on a really good day... ~pks

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  6. suki06 April, 2018 20:26

    Thank goodness I read the comments before I threw off a random who thinks of such madness -:)

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  7. Peter K Steinberg06 April, 2018 20:29

    To quote my good friend, Crow: "Me, evidently".

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