5) How drunk can you get on Spanish wine in Benidorm at seven cents a bottle if a booth further down the market has butter for a peseta less ? How many glasses of wine would have been raised to ...praise the hostess and the soon-to-be mistress? Teacher's Pets, a novel in verse for young adults, was published by Tightrope Books in 2014, and is one of the books in the North Shore authors Program in the local library system (BC).
Tiny Fissures Kolbe, Laura
The Virginia quarterly review,
10/2023, Letnik:
99, Številka:
3
Journal Article
False Endings and the Daybook Nature of Art MY FIRST ACT of writing, after having a baby in early January of this year, was a February journal entry. ...came the whump of a red-tailed hawk launching ...itself from one fire escape to another-its noise a kind of anti-noise, like pulling on earmuffs. ...there it was: the old, comfortable, glorious sense that my presence was extraneous and belated-the way I used to be able to feel, prebaby, like a speck of a many, rather than a terribly over-centered instance of one. "so much depends / upon //a red wheel / barrow..." While keeping a diary, Truitt realizes that she had buried her own "intensities" inside each work of art she'd made, hoping that in so doing she could "exorcise those beyond her endurance."
Originally published in 1979. Sylvia Plath is one of the most controversial poets of our time. For some readers, she is the symbol of women oppressed. For others, she is the triumphant victim of her ...own intensity—the poet pursuing sensation to the ultimate uncertainty, death. For still others, she is a doomed innocent whose sensibilities were too acute for the coarseness of our world. The new essays of this edited collection (with a single exception, all were written for this book) broaden the perspective of Plath criticism by going beyond the images of Plath as a cult figure to discuss Plath the poet. The contributors—among them Calvin Bedient, Hugh Kenner, J. D. O'Hara, and Marjorie Perloff—draw on material that most previous commentators lacked: a substantial body of Plath's poetry and prose, a moderately detailed biographical record, and an important selection of the poet's correspondence. The result is an important and provocative volume, one in which major critics offer an abundance of insights into the poet's mind and creative process. It offers insightful and original readings of many poems—some, like "Berck-Plage," scarcely mentioned in previous criticism—and fosters new understandings of such matters as Plath's comedy, the development of her poetic voice, and her relation to poetic traditions. The serious reader, whatever his or her initial opinion of Sylvia Plath, is sure to find that opinion challenged, changed, or deepened. These essays offer insights into a violently interesting poet, one who despite, or perhaps because of, her suicide at age thirty continues to fascinate and trouble us.
Em setembro de 2020, enquanto eu estava em isolamento social na casa de meus pais, em Sergipe, no Nordeste brasileiro, a escritora carioca concordou em me conceder, por e-mail, esta entrevista, ...integrante de minha tese de doutorado, intitulada "Ariel e Corola: A seiva descalça no solo poético de Sylvia Plath e Claudia Roquette-Pinto", defendida em abril de 2021, na Universidade de Brasilia (UnB). Em entrevistas anteriores, já lhe perguntaram ou comentaram o erotismo presente em sua poética, assim como a experiencia sensorial, visual e sonora que seus poemas nos provocam. Em relaçâo å critica associar minha poesia "å vivencia urbana em um mundo violento", creio que esta associaçâo só tenha começado a ser feita para valer a partir do meu livro Margem de manobra, o qual, propositadamente, reúne poemas que falam desta perspectiva e tratam deste modo de estar no mundo. Compartilhamos uma poética que, sem desconsiderar o real, tangencia a espiritualidade, provavelmente por virmos de tradiçöes filosóficas como o hinduísmo (no caso dele) e o budismo tibetano (no meu). Conforme o tempo passa, tenho observado que fica cada vez mais fácil tomar a palavra e nomear, de uma forma menos velada, aquilo que, em mim, experimenta essas instancias.
Sylvia Plath: An Iconic Life Clark, Heather
Women's history review,
11/2021, Letnik:
30, Številka:
7
Journal Article
Recenzirano
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This article is an edited transcript of the Hilary Term Weinrebe Lecture, which was delivered remotely on 2 March 2021 at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, Wolfson College, Oxford. The lecture ...offers a personal and scholarly account of the reasons why the author decided to write a new biography of Sylvia Plath. It reviews Plath's popular and academic status as a feminist, confessional, 'mad' poet, and offers an alternative way of interpreting her life and work that rejects the pathological approaches of previous biographies. Also recounted are some of the challenges the author encountered over the course of eight years while researching and writing this 1,117-page biography.
Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar chronicles prize-winning college student Esther Greenwood’s descent into melancholy and attempted suicide. An emerging writer, Esther sees clearly the paths ...available to her under 1950s US patriarchy: homemaker or eccentric intellectual. Each on its own is untenable, and choosing one precludes the other. The bell jar metaphor conjures a sense of confinement and suffocation, but this essay offers a multispecies reading that shows why such an interpretation is too narrow. The essay looks carefully at the bell jar, its function within her story, and the context within which Plath encountered it, namely, as a student of botany at Smith College conducting lab exercises on photosynthesis using the South African silverleaf geranium (Pelargonium sidoides). Through archival research on Plath and botanical instruction at the college, the essay shows that the bell jars Plath used were not tools of oppression. Rather, they were tools for growing plants from faraway places that require higher atmospheric humidity: technologies for making dislocated life possible. Plath’s cross-species encounters with exotic plants at the conservatory were critical to her conception of life as a woman under patriarchy—like the silverleaf geranium, living in a world not built for her.
The gynocritical study of Anna Terék's latest book of poems, Dead Women (2017) is an analysis based on the outline of a subcultural framework of feminine experience. The string of poems is narrated ...by women in times of war, sickness, adultery, cruelty and aggression. The poems are told by women from an unconventional perspective. The traumas of the characters are persistent and cannot be overcome in a lifetime, thus they are "dealt with" after their death. This way Terék touches upon a key element of feminist criticism, "the art of dying". Suicide appears as a solution, as well as something natural and an act of free choice. Another topics that emerge in the poems are matrophobia, adultery, identity, patriarchal relations. Along with the intrinsic analysis of Terék' s poetry, the paper also touches upon the ideology and history of development of the female literary tradition, biological determinism and limitations of gynocriticism.
In attempting to weave in the evolution of physical laws with that of the human mind and cultures, Greene's aim vaults beyond that of his bestselling 1999 book, The Elegant Universe. ...the End of ...Time is packed with ideas; whether they come together as a convincing story is another matter. ...Greene remains wedded to the idea that the most reductive view has ultimate authority - that it all comes down to particles, entropy and evolution. Philip Ball is a science writer and author; his latest book is How To Grow a Human. e-mail: p.ball@btinternet.com "Greene remains wedded to the idea that the most reductive view has ultimate authority." ...the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe Brian Greene Penguin (2020)
In the annals of literary history, few characters loom as large or as enigmatic as Sylvia Plath, the American poet and novelist whose brief, tempestuous life was inextricably entwined with her ...creative output. The name Sylvia Plath continues to be an enduring fixture in the fabric of literary discourse as the embers of the twentieth century fade into the mists of recollection. Plath was a master wordsmith whose deft use of language and imagery captured readers across decades, inspiring them and resonating with them. The current treatise endeavors to shed new light on her oeuvre through the lens of attachment theory, thereby unveiling hitherto obscured facets of her poetry and providing a fresh viewpoint on her life and work. Sylvia Plath's body of work, which emerged from the crucible of midcentury America, is a testament to the zeitgeist of the time, marked by a fervent acceptance of emotional intensity and stark, unadorned reflection. Several prominent poets of the mid-twentieth century also embraced emotional intensity and unvarnished reflection in their work.
