Plath Work, Web Work (Updates)
Hello! It’s been an exciting January as I have found my momentum for so many things again. I think the cold weather keeps me in at the computer and has energized me as of late. I’ve had a busy week or so expanding this website to include my poetic interpretations of Sylvia Plath’s early poems […]
PDF Available of Fixed Stars Govern a Life
In this year of Covid-19 and quarantining, it seems a lot of people have been Plathing and reading my papers on Academia.edu, as well as my two Decoding Sylvia Plath books. And they write, mainly asking, “How can I get a copy of Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath“? It is out of […]
Proof Plath Knew Qabalah: The Painted Caravan
I thought I would do a series of book reviews on this blog on old books that Plath owned and read, as I’m becoming aware that few others have read them. I’m going to start with the one scholars know Ted Hughes bought Plath for her birthday in 1956, The Painted Caravan: a penetration into […]
What We Don’t Know
A reader saw Dr. Ann Skea’s 2012 posts about my first book, Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath work and asked me some questions. I started to respond, and then decided to answer her here, to share with everyone, five years after the fact: Earlier in that year, Dr. Skea emailed me, letting me […]
Shut Up and Plath?
Multi-platinum award-winning singer for Walk the Moon, Nicholas Petricca, might be the last one you’d think of as “bound to be together” with the depressive suicidal poet Sylvia Plath. Yet Petricca, who’s no dummy and up on his English Lit, shares Plath’s appreciation for tarot card reading and a serious interest in spirituality and mysticism. […]