Word used by Sylvia Plath?
I have a record released in years which SP reads his poems and also an interview with the BBC reading of "Daddy" is particularly powerful. It sounds like a psycho-killer who would really drive a stake through his black, black heart. The interview is powerful too. She sounds like she is about to have a nervous breakdown at any time. The question is: When we speak of poetry in prose cons, she said: "When I write a novel, I can put in all the toothbrushes and pileities." I'm just the spelling of the word the way it seems to me, because I've never heard before. Pil-ay-i-tees. Of course, I understand the meaning of what she says but I admire his work very much and I would know exactly what words she uses here. I tried various spellings and can not find in any dictionary.
PLATH: Well, I always been interested in prose. As a teenager, I published short stories. And I always wanted to write the short story, I wanted to write a novel. Now that I have achieved, I say, a respectable age, and have had experiences, I feel much more interested in prose in the novel. I think that in a novel, for example, you can get toothbrushes and all the paraphernalia found in Dally life, and I find it more difficult in poetry. Poetry, I believe, is a tyrannical discipline, you have to go so far, so fast in such a small space that you just have to divert all devices. And I miss them! I am a woman, I like my little Lares and household gods, I love trivia, and I find that in a novel that I can get more life, maybe not this intense life, but certainly more of life, and I became very interested in the novel written as a result.
Rita Dove reading her poem “Prose in a Small Space”
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