...and I eat men like air
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gwynnegaI've been listening to the new British Library Sylvia Plath CD ("The surviving BBC broadcasts"), which is marvelous and contains a lot of material I've never heard before. But one cringeworthy bit occurs when an unidentified male announcer introduces Plath at a poetry reading in London, 1961 (she reads "Tulips"):
"It's a pleasure to present a woman poet. We have such a predominantly masculine week here, a fact that didn't really strike me till the programming was complete. What it shows about my taste, I don't know, but I'm very glad that we have, at any rate, one very fine woman poet this evening: Miss Sylvia Plath, as I refer to her by her maiden name, before she was Mrs. Ted Hughes."
"It's a pleasure to present a woman poet. We have such a predominantly masculine week here, a fact that didn't really strike me till the programming was complete. What it shows about my taste, I don't know, but I'm very glad that we have, at any rate, one very fine woman poet this evening: Miss Sylvia Plath, as I refer to her by her maiden name, before she was Mrs. Ted Hughes."
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Date: 2010-06-17 05:16 am (UTC)Also: yeeeeeeesh.
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Date: 2010-06-17 06:04 pm (UTC)::hugs::
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Date: 2010-06-17 12:48 pm (UTC)I'm intrigued by the CD.
*adds to wishlist*
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