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             Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)

                            Mirror

First Line: I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.

This poem is dated October 23, 1961 and is protected by copyright. It cannot be displayed without permission of the copyright holder. It can be found in:

  • Plath, Sylvia. The Collected Poems. Ted Hughes, ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1981.
  • Arp, Thomas R., and Greg Johnson, eds. Perrine's Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry (Tenth Edition). New York: Harcourt College Publishers, 2001.

    Plath was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982 after the publication of her collected poems.