If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating. Both of you are great light borrowers. Her O-mouth grieves at the world; yours is unaffected, And your first gift is making stone out of everything. I wake to a mausoleum; you are here, Ticking your fingers on the marble table, looking for cigarettes, Spiteful as a woman, but not so nervous,...
In October, my review of Alix Strauss' Death Becomes Them , led to some temporary uncertainly over Aurelia Plath's whereabouts on 24 August 1953 - the afternoon of Sylvia Plath's first suicide attempt. Was she at the theater? Was she at a friends? In Wellesley? Or in some other town? Thanks to BrigetAnna, ~VC, and Jim Long for pointing out that this is something Strauss got right (see the comments...
The Jailer- Sylvia Plath My night sweats grease his breakfast plate. The same placard of blue fog is wheeled into position With the same trees and headstones. Is that all he can come up with, The rattler of keys? I have been drugged and raped. Seven hours knocked out of my right mind Into a black sack Where I relax, foetus or cat, Lever of his wet dreams. Something is gone. My sleeping capsule, my...
If you have access to Project Muse , you can read the article on Sylvia Plath and teenage girls that Founding Editor Becca Klaver co-wrote with advisory board member Arielle Greenberg . If you don't have access and want to read it, email Becca at becca[at]switchbackbooks[dot]com. Congratulations Becca! So proud of you. Here's the abstract: The legacy of Sylvia Plath’s poetry and the received...
“Sylvia” is about the poet Sylvia Plath, who, as this song reminds us, committed suicide by putting her head in an oven. This live version of the song, which is off of the Antlers’ Hospice album, is much more quiet than the original. Most notably, the noisy cloud of reverb has been reduced to a subtle fog. Peter Silberman has a singing style very similar to Cold War Kids singer Nate...
Elena Ciobanu, Lecturer at Vasile Alecsandri, University of Bacau, Romania, recently had her book Sylvia Plath's Poetry: The Metamorphoses of the Poetic Self published by Casa Editoriala Demiurg in Romania. Elena's book is an excellent study of Sylvia Plath's poetry. She builds upon previous critical works and theoretical approaches whilst infusing it with her own original reading. Ciobanu's Sylvia...
Last night I dreamed that Tom and I opened our front door, and there on the porch was a red fox. Except this wasn't an ordinary red fox, it was a RED fox--scarlet--cardinal red! I was mesmerized. Our little kitten Rufus ran out to play with it and at first I was frightened, but then I realized he'd be fine. I awoke to be clear that this fox was the perfect unity of Ted Hughes ("The Thought Fox"--one...
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Lois Ames: Confidante to Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.”Interview by Doug Holder (2005)Recently I was privileged to hear Lois Ames speak at the “Wilderness House Literary Retreat,” in Littleton, Mass. Lois Ames is a poet, biographer and psychotherapist. She was a confidante of the poet Anne Sexton, and has published many essays on both Sexton and Sylvia Plath including: “A Biographical...
I was back in my marketing career, and I had been invited to a luncheon, to council a non-profit company headed by a black woman. She was unfamiliar to me (in real life), and I had just met her in the dream. She was middle-aged, and smart, but living in a place of fear and victimization (as many in the not-for-profit world are--I've spent a lot of my work life there). In fact, she may have been an...
Recently Received Books (Poetry) Ryan Adams, Hello Sunshine , Akashic Books, New York 2009 Sherwin Bitsui, Flood Song , Copper Canyon, Port Townsend 2009 Adrian Blevins, Live from the Homesick Jamboree , Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT 2009 Ana Božičević, Stars of the Night Commute , Tarpaulin Sky, Grafton, VT 2009 Neeli Cherkovski, From the Canyon Outward , R.L. Crow Publications,...
1: A Place Called Here (Paperback) by Cecelia Ahern 2: The Secret Lives of Men and Women: A PostSecret Book (Hardcover) by Frank Warren 3: Passive Aggressive Notes: Painfully Polite and Hilariously Hostile Writings... by Kerry Miller 4: If You Could See Me Now (Paperback) by Cecelia Ahern 5: The Bell Jar (Paperback) by Sylvia Plath 6: The Secret Shopper's Revenge (Paperback) by Kate Harrison 7: Change...
Back in the 1590’s’s when Popes were Popes, Painters were Giants of the Italian renaissance who churned out jumbo ceilings and monumental walls heaving with large-as-life-and-twice-as-natural centaurs, heroes and gods, accompanied by chunky putti. The English, on the other hand, excelled at miniatures — tiny, intensely personal studies the size of passport photos. Titter ye not. It...
I was born today November 10 1974 in Jackson Mississippi my favorite color is blue my children are: Dakota Wolf, 15 Ian Oliver, 12 Lola Moon, 7 we want one more (from my mouth to God's ears) my husband is Mr. Curry i live in San Diego California i am a poet and a novelist, writing my second novel Agitate My Heart i love Milk Duds and dry champagne i love wild mustangs, travel, wild places, old houses,...
Composer, bandleader and Tzadik label founder John Zorn has long honored women in the arts, through dedications such as "Redbird" (for Agnes Martin), "Duras" (for Marguerite Duras) and "In the Very Eye of Night" (for Maya Deren), and through Tzadik's Oracles Series, which "celebrates the diversity and creativity of women in experimental music." Femina is his...
In 1961 Assia Wevill and her husband David rented a flat in Primrose Hill, London from poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. Hughes and Assia were immediately attracted to each other - as Ted described in one of his later poems: ...
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