We shall by morning/Inherit the earth/Our foot’s in the door.

Thanks Dad March 28, 2007

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My dedication knows no bounds! I was just about to take a nap when I got this e-mail from my dad (this is truly becoming a collaborative project) and I knew I had to blog about it. I have been keeping him updated on these really strange series of events that i’ve been encountering regarding Plath’s unpublished works, and my own personal concerns that i’ve misconstrued the situation or perhaps am creating drama where none acutally exists. He found this posting on a site called sylviaplathforum.com. The site is actually really irritating, it’s comparable to what my blog would look life if there were two of me and we both had multiple personality disorder. Any Plath nut can go and post and rant away, but no one really responds to one another, so there is contradiction and repetitive chaos all over the place. But there was this one posting around the time when “Ennui” was published that says:

“Can I just point out that a list of Plath’s Uncollected Juvenilia
appears at the back of her Collected Poems. These may well appear in
print at some stage, making the Collected Poems change its title to
‘Collected Poems (1956 - 1963)’ similar to that of Eliot’s
poems….Sounds a bit iffy but there are in fact many more unpublished
poems listed here which Hughes writes in his note are kept at the Sylvia
Plath Archive at the Lilly Library, Indiana University. So it’s not like
a previously unknown poem has appeared out of the blue, so to say.
‘Found by student’ has the uncanny whiff of Charlie Bucket finding the
golden ticket in a gutter!”

Rehan Qayoom
London , England
Sunday, November 12, 2006

MY THOUGHTS EXACLTY!!! So, while no one responded too or repeated these sentiments, it is nice to know that I am not the only Plath nut who noticed this problem. Unfortunatly, this also makes it clear that the Plath forum is not the right audience, I might try to write an artilce and reach a wider one.

FYI: I was reviewing an older post from when I met with Dr. Donovan and so I have a record of how he told me the story and my reaction to it. It is also worthy of note that I have gone through the EXACT same process as Anna Journey. She did not, in fact, visit the Lilly Library, but “found” the sonnet in the same manner I did.

Still no word from the library about publishing…but the idea of being able to post this poem is getting more and more exciting. Owning a copy of a poem that I can’t share is really proving how outrageously strange this whole sitauation is.

ps. Professor Emerson and I will be talking about this blog and blogging in general at the student academy on Saturday morning….bright and early! feel free to join us