Congratulations to Amanda Golden and Karen V. Kukil, as well as to Faber & Faber and Frieda Hughes, on the publication, today, in the United Kingdom, of The Poems of Sylvia Plath . The 944 page book is a hefty and healthy addition to Sylvia Plath scholarship.  Meticulously transcribed and forensically researched, readers of The Poems of Sylvia Plath  will experience the entire known poetic output of Sylvia Plath drawn from a variety of archival sources including manuscripts and typescripts, as well as from poems that appear in diaries, journals, and periodicals, among other origins.  Please do not skip the Introduction and Editorial Practices section in the front matter. You will note that, on page 3 of the book, the first poems are a trio of villanelles: "To Eva Descending the Stair", "Doomsday", and "Mad Girl's Love Song", all written in 1953. The reader is immediately presented on the following page with the page number for the relevant notes f...