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Deaths of the Poets National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2015) It begins with a girlFrom Chattertons Pre Raphaelite demise to Keats death warrant in a smudge of arterial blood; from Dylan Thomass eighteen straight whiskies to Sylvia Plaths desperate suicide in the gas oven of her Primrose Hill kitchen or John Berrymans leap from a bridge onto the frozen Mississippi, the deaths of poets have often cast a backward shadow on their work. The post Romantic myth of the dissolute drunken poet exemplified by Thomas and made iconic by his