![]() ![]() She describes the human spirit as a “cobweb in the wind” a sleeping lover’s vulnerability is tenderly captured a suicide fantasy turns on itself to celebrate the beauty of a world that Monroe is not ready to leave. Her poems are, by far, the heart of the book. Her fans have always been aware of this side of her personality and hopefully with this book the secret is out Marilyn was no dumb blonde and indeed we see a real depth to her character, creative, intelligent, a bookworm with a flair for poetry herself! Not really how the public pictures Marilyn Monroe. Some may feel that the book is quite intrusive because of the personal content but at the same time it does give us a deeper understanding of the woman behind the image, her hopes and fears. “I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.” Thinking herself happily married, she was crushed to discover an open journal in which Miller had written that she disappointed him and embarrassed him in front of his intellectual peers. ![]() The world’s most coveted woman, a picture of luminescence, was lonely and dark. “Fragments,” a new book of her poems, letters and musings, written in her own hand in leather books and others on stationery from the Waldorf-Astoria and the Beverly Hills Hotel, is affecting. Arthur Miller once described Marilyn as “a poet on a street corner trying to recite to a crowd pulling at her clothes.” ![]()
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