The Qabalistic Palimpsest of Axel’s Castle
This is the 5th book review from books in Sylvia Plath’s library, or mentioned in journals or letters. See older blog posts for other reviews. I’ve decided that these book reviews are getting a bit long for a blog format, so I’m going to blog only the beginnings, and if you’d like to read the […]
Gratitude for Goodreads Reviews
I found a good new book review of Decoding Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” today on GoodReads. I love any and all thoughtful book reviews, because they challenge me and show me where I need to clarify things. This guy was terrific in specifics and clearly paid attention to what he was reading. I also love that […]
Know What Plath Read to Know Plath
In the previous blog I mention Literary Alchemy, and the conscious effort that some poets and writers have made throughout history to interweave mysticism into their art in order to make it into something larger than themselves. This is not a new idea, and I am not the first one to notice it. When Sylvia Plath […]
Portrait of the Artist as a Model for Sylvia Plath, or Waking Up to Finnegans Wake
This is part of a series of posts summarizing and quoting from books that were important to Plath, since I believe the majority of Plath fans today have not read them. If I get a lot of them down with good response, perhaps it’ll be another book. James Joyce’s experimental novel, Finnegans Wake, is the […]
The James Joyce Society Reading Finnegans Wake
Some of you know that I am just recently back from the 2017 Sylvia Plath Symposium in Belfast, Ireland. I took copious notes, and plan to share them, but as I reviewed and typed them, I was also looking at pictures of Ireland and digging into James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. Anyway, it all took me […]