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Through quotations and contextual discussion, the text examines Plath’s ambition, her desire for recognition and payment, and how her work anticipates the “peanut-crunching crowd.” It then connects Plath’s cultural afterlife with Taylor Swift’s self-presentation and modern pop-mythmaking.","the slicks  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nAlso by Maggie Nelson  \nPathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth Like Love: Essays and Conversations On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint  \nThe Argonauts The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning Bluets  \nThe Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions Something Bright, Then Holes Jane: A Murder  \nThe Latest Winter  \nShiner  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nthe slicks  \nOn Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift  \nmaggie nelson  \nGraywolf Press  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCopyright © 2024 by Maggie Nelson  \nOriginally published as a limited-edition zine by Dopazine/Dopamine Books, 2024.  \nThe author and Graywolf Press have provided this e-book to you for your personal use only. You may not make this e-book publicly available in any way. Copyright infringement is against the law. If you believe the copy of this e-book you are reading infringes on the author’s copyright, please notify Graywolf Press at: [us.macmillanusa.com/piracy](us.macmillanusa.com/piracy).  \nPublished by Graywolf Press  \n212 Third Avenue North, Suite 485  \nMinneapolis, Minnesota 55401  \nAll rights reserved.  \n[www.graywolfpress.org](www.graywolfpress.org)  \nPublished in the United States of America  \nPrinted in Canada  \nISBN 978-1-64445-408-4 (paperback)  \nISBN 978-1-64445-409-1 (ebook)  \n2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1  \nFirst Graywolf Printing, 2025  \nLibrary of Congress Control Number: 2025942383  \nCover design: Brooke Palmieri  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nfor Alba  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nthe slicks  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n“Above all things, Sylvia Plath desired fame,” Jacqueline Rose tells us in The Haunting of Sylvia Plath.“As [Plath] put it at one point in her Journals: ‘it is sad only to be able to mouth other poets; I want someone to mouth me.’ ”  \nPeople did come to mouth Plath, likely more than she could have ever imagined. But the fame came—famously—with and after death. She did not live, for better or worse, to bear the burden of what Rose aptly terms “the perverse component (voyeurism and sadism) of public acclaim.”  \nAt least in a limited sense, this may have been for the better, insofar as the voyeurism and sadism that have come Plath’s way over the past six decades has been ɹerce and unyielding. (I’m thinking of the shockingly sexist estimations of her work by male critics in the wake of her death; successive feminist battles over whether to venerate or revile her; the punitive management of her literary estate; the spiteful, micromanaged biographies; lawsuits having to do with The Bell Jar; the repetitive vandalism of her grave by fans who aimed to chisel “Hughes” oʃ her name; and, perhaps most violent of all, the reduction of her staggeringly complex body of work into the meme of a sad, mean white girl who died with her head in an oven while her children slept nearby.) As Rose says of Plath’s ghost,“What she may be asking for is never clear, although it seems highly unlikely that she is asking for what she gets.”  \nPlath didn’t live to inhabit her fame, but her work sketches its contours nonetheless. Her poems oʃer a shrewd guide to the voyeurism and sadism, idolatry and demonization, which characterize our treatment of the famous, especially famous women—and especially those women who traɽc in making the personal public, however mediated or aestheticized. Plath knew all about the“peanut-crunching crowd [who] / Shoves in to see … The big striptease”—an exhibition she explicitly links to money: “there is a  \ncharge, a very large charge / For a word or a touch / Or a bit of blood // Or a piece of my hair or my clothes”(“Lady Lazarus”).  \nPlath was broke when she wrote these lines: no one was paying her much for her writing, much less for a bit of her clothes. But unlike, say, Emily Dickinson—another poet who theorized fame without living it—Plath desperately wanted to be known, acclaimed, and paid. 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