Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.

Tarset: Bloodaxe 2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1987. Middletown CT: Wesleyan University Press 1974; London: Oxford University Press 1974.

Anne Stevenson (born January 3 1933) is an American-British poet and writer.