and i wanted to include two other poems by plath. i was really going for broke. but when i wrote to hughes who was plath's executor and also the sister of her estranged husband ted hughes and who was rumored to be somewhat of a ferocious person, to reprint daddy would cost me $100. i was paying out of the pittance i got for doing the book, and as a beginning assistant professor with two kids, i had not very much money of my own. and owen said that the other two poems i had asked for were $50 each. [laughter] that was the beginning of my literary career. and i will tell you that i settled for a $50 poem. [laughter] i struck a bargain, and i bought a poem called "les boss" which is really quite a long poem. it's a magnificent poem about 'emnity between two women which was a cheaper poem than "daddy" for reasons we can speculate about. that was my introduction to the business of literary anthology and as an idealistic young scholar, it had never occurred to me that poems could be rated by their ticket price as well as by their quality. but that experience really cha

in this new collection i have to poems by sylvia plath, and i have to tell you, i still can't afford daddy. you know. boy, that was an unbelievable bargain. having it has escalated. so i still campaign for it. i have chosen to other problems, very powerful poems written in the last few months before her suicide. i've realized that sometimes financial constraint forces you to look beyond the conventional and find something really wonderful. not all the time, but in this case. so fast forward to the present. in 2003i signed a contract to write a jury of her peers which has many female writers, but it is in literary history more than an anthology. my editor suggested to me that it would be a good idea to put together an anthology to go with it and to be published in paperback. that is the book i'm talking about today. was extremely welcome as a suggestion. i know that many of the work side talk about in "a jury of her peers" are out of print, hard to find, and traders say, where can i get ahold of these texts? that i am interested and curious, where can i read them? i knew from the begi

in this new collection of two poems by sylvia plath and i have to tell you i still can't afford daddy. [laughter] for those at $100, the way that was an unbelievable bargain now i mean it has escalated so i still can't pay for it and i have chosen to of her other poems, very powerful written in the last few months before her suicide and i realized that sometimes financial constraints forced to look beyond the conventional and find something really wonderful. not all the time, but in this case. so fast forward to the present. in 203i signed a contract with knopf which as many women writers but it's a literary history more of an anthology, and my editor at knopf suggested to me that would be a good idea to put together an anthology to go with it and to be published in paperwork and that is the book i'm talking about that was extremely well good suggestion. i know that many of the work i talk about are all of print, they were very hard to find and the reader said where can i get ahold of these texts now plan interested in curious about them, where can i read them? and i knew from the beg

from the very beginning, richard threw himself into the workings of this institution first with nick plath and then with vishakha desai. he pushed us to be more media savvy, he constantly brought new supporters into our orbit. some of you in the audience today have felt the holbrooke to join the asia society, and we thank you for your support. during richard's tenure as chairman of the board, the asia society became a stronger institution with a number of significant new initiatives. we inaugurated two new centers, one in mumbai and one in seoul. we celebratedded our 50th anniversary with richard urging us to project our global presence. this included getting a live connection with the chief executive officer, c.h. tung in hong kong, that night, in the middle of our gala dinner at the waldorf. richard was instrumental in encouraging the late arthur ross, our honorary life trustee, to establish the center for u.s./china relations. today the center is thriving under the leadership of orville shell. richard was a force of nature, and sometimes that force seemed too powerful for others to with