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Kelly Lemieux My friend Sam R. borrowed from that "Daddy" poem 31 years ago for a play I wrote, for one of his pieces of dialogue, and I just found out in 2019. It …moreMy friend Sam R. borrowed from that "Daddy" poem 31 years ago for a play I wrote, for one of his pieces of dialogue, and I just found out in 2019. It pisses me off and makes me look like a co-conspirator. After ripping Plath off, he ripped me off a few years later, me being a gay playwright, by doing "his own" play. Thanx for letting me spew.(less)

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Batoul by Sylvia Plath
4.19 avg rating — 9,286 ratings — published 1960
With this startling, exhilarating book of poems, which was first published in 1960, Sy…moreby Sylvia Plath
4.19 avg rating — 9,286 ratings — published 1960
With this startling, exhilarating book of poems, which was first published in 1960, Sylvia Plath burst into literature with spectacular force. In such classics as "The Beekeeper's Daughter," "The Disquieting Muses," "I Want, I Want," and "Full Fathom Five," she writes about sows and skeletons, fathe ...more

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