In his poem “Daddy: 1933,” published in the June 2008 issue of Poetry, Geoffrey Brock excerpts from a book written by Sylvia Plath’s father:

It is a delightful thing
to pause and watch
these queens, clad

in their costumes of rich
velvet, their wings
not yet torn—

he wrote it the year after
Sylvia was born—
by the long foraging

flights which
they will be obliged
to take later.

In “Daddy,” Sylvia Plath describes her father as a “pro-German” with a “morbid disposition,“ and now the FBI has released files on Plath’s father that corroborate her pro-Nazi characterization of him.