Frankly, I cringe at the thought of anyone discovering my adolescent poetry and publishing it, but then I’m not Sylvia Plath. A poem Plath wrote at Smith College, inspired by her study of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, has just surfaced and now appears with commentary on Blackbird, an online journal of arts and literarture published jointly by Virginia Commonwealth University’s English Department and New Virginia Review. A Commonwealth creative writing student researching the Plath archives at Indiana University made the lucky discovery. What’s striking is that while many young poets struggle to find themselves, trying on styles like so many prom dresses, this poem shows Plath in full possession of her voice: ironic, acidulous, blackly funny, and demanding more of life. No, it’s not “Ariel,” but it’s an immeasurable treat.