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Tag Archives: Sylvia Plath
Stuff I’ve Been Reading
— An incredible article about the Parkland students who are now rehearsing a production of Spring Awakening, by Isaac Butler (one of the co-authors of the new oral history of Angels in America, which I can’t wait to read). They … Continue reading
“I hold back nothing.” – Anne Sexton
Today is the birthday of poet Anne Sexton. When you read The Complete Poems, and you read her work in chronological order, you can feel her sliding off the rails at the end – not just mentally: I’m talking about … Continue reading
Bookshelf Tour #4
Poetry is important to me. My collection is small but each volume is loved, read, dipped into, used constantly as references. Six Centuries of Great Poetry: A Stunning Collection of Classic British Poems from Chaucer to Yeats, edited by Robert … Continue reading
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The Books: Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001: ‘The Indefatigable Hoof-Taps: Sylvia Plath,’ by Seamus Heaney
On the essays shelf (yes, there are still more books to excerpt in my vast library. I can’t seem to stop this excerpts-from-my-library project. I started it in 2006!) NEXT BOOK: Seamus Heaney’s Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001. Seamus Heaney … Continue reading
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“Cara flexed her black-gloved hands, the cold permeating. ‘The moon drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet.’ ‘Speak not of dark crimes,’ Sheila hissed, her face as white as a bridal dress, that pallor.”
It is Sylvia Plath’s birthday. I have had a lifelong relationship with her (and will continue to do so). If you click the Sylvia Plath tag below, there is a lot more stuff I’ve written. But today I wanted to … Continue reading
On Fitzroy Road
I have been too busy to relate my time in Richmond, although I will get to it. I followed in the footsteps of Elvis Presley (this was the inspiration, although there was also an Elvis photo exhibit in Richmond that … Continue reading
The Books: Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963, by Sylvia Plath
Daily Book Excerpt: Memoirs: Next book on the Memoir/Letters/Journals shelf is Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963, Sylvia Plath (edited by her mother, Aurelia Plath). Here’s my opinion on what’s going on here. This correspondence, the letters Sylvia Plath wrote to her … Continue reading
The Books: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Daily Book Excerpt: Memoirs: Next book on the Memoir/Letters/Journals shelf is The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath I’ve written a lot about Sylvia Plath. It’s rare that you have a relationship with a writer that lasts so long. I first … Continue reading
The Books: Revising Life: Sylvia Plath’s Ariel Poems, by Susan R. Van Dyne
Daily Book Excerpt: Poetry. Next book on the shelf: Revising Life: Sylvia Plath’s Ariel Poems, by Susan R. Van Dyne I’m not big on literary criticism, and not big on autobiographical readings of works of literature. However, Revising Life manages … Continue reading
The Books: The Collected Poems, by Sylvia Plath
Daily Book Excerpt: Poetry. Next book on the shelf: The Collected Poems, by Sylvia Plath Faced with so many poems (more than half the volume covers the poetry written prior to 1960, the year The Colossus was published in Britain), … Continue reading