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 […]
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 […]