Praise for the bell Jar
For Elisabeth and David
A classic is a book not read by anyone but need by all, censorship is the first and major obstacle it must face.
A first book is never a novel, is always an autobiography.
Sylvia Plath die at the age of thirty and that is a tragedy to overcome.
The curse is to write as yourself? No.
Death as a burden over a novel.
Sylvia Plath was an overachiever, a scholar and an avid reader.
Do I terrify?——
She has not a phenomenon in one but only aspect: she was female
Daughter, mother, wife.
Bright as a Nazi lampshade,
To be naked is to be born, word, by word
I rocked shut
As a seashell.
A gift, to hear.
Nature’s call
A mermaid
Singing for the ocean
Literature is an art
like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.
I am only thirty.
And I a smiling woman.
Briseida Alcalá 