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The Lost Journals of Sylvia Plath

Kimberly Knutsen
The Lost Journals of Sylvia Plath Book PDF

Author : Kimberly Knutsen
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501757815

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The Lost Journals of Sylvia Plath by Kimberly Knutsen Pdf

Finalist, 2015 Midwest Book Award Chicago Book Review Best Book of 2015 Set in the frozen wasteland of Midwestern academia, The Lost Journals of Sylvia Plath introduces Wilson A. Lavender, father of three, instructor of women's studies, and self-proclaimed genius who is beginning to think he knows nothing about women. He spends much of his time in his office not working on his dissertation, a creative piece titled "The Lost Journals of Sylvia Plath." A sober alcoholic, he also spends much of his time not drinking, until he hooks up with his office mate, Alice Cherry, an undercover stripper who introduces him to "the buffer"—the chemical solution to his woes. Wilson's wife, Katie, is an anxious hippie, genuine earth mother, and recent PhD with no plans other than to read People magazine, eat chocolate, and seduce her young neighbor—a community college student who has built a bar in his garage. Intelligent and funny, Katie is haunted by a violent childhood. Her husband's "tortured genius" both exhausts and amuses her. The Lavenders' stagnant world is roiled when Katie's pregnant sister, January, moves in. Obsessed with her lost love, '80s rocker Stevie Flame, January is on a quest to reconnect with her glittery, big-haired past. A free spirit to the point of using other people's toothbrushes without asking, she drives Wilson crazy. Exploring the landscape of family life, troubled relationships, dreams of the future, and nightmares of the past, Knutsen has conjured a literary gem filled with humor and sorrow, Aqua Net and Scooby-Doo, diapers and benzodiazepines—all the detritus and horror and beauty of modern life.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Book PDF

Author : Sylvia Plath
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307429506

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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath Pdf

The complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath—essential reading for anyone who has been moved and fascinated by the poet's life and work. "A genuine literary event.... Plath's journals contain marvels of discovery." —The New York Times Book Review Sylvia Plath's journals were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. This new edition is an exact and complete transcription of the diaries Plath kept during the last twelve years of her life. Sixty percent of the book is material that has never before been made public, more fully revealing the intensity of the poet's personal and literary struggles, and providing fresh insight into both her frequent desperation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons.

The Journals of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath
The Journals of Sylvia Plath Book PDF

Author : Sylvia Plath
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307830395

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The Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath Pdf

The electrifying diaries that are essential reading for anyone moved and fascinated by the life and work of one of America's most acclaimed poets. Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing. Plath once called her journal her “Sargasso,” her repository of imagination, “a litany of dreams, directives, and imperatives,” and in fact these pages contain the germs of most of her work. Plath’s ambitions as a writer were urgent and ultimately all-consuming, requiring of her a heat, a fantastic chaos, even a violence that burned straight through her. The intensity of this struggle is rendered in her journal with an unsparing clarity, revealing both the frequent desperation of her situation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons.

Ariel

Sylvia Plath
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Author : Sylvia Plath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0571310125

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Ariel by Sylvia Plath Pdf

Ariel (1965) contains many of Sylvia Plath's best-known poems written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963, including 'Lady Lazarus', 'Edge', 'Daddy' and 'Paralytic'. The first of four collections to be published by Faber & Faber, Ariel is the volume on which Sylvia Plath's reputation as one of the most original, daring and gifted poets of the twentieth century rests. This beautiful hardback reproduces the classic design of the first edition of a volume now recognised to be one of the most shocking and iconic collections of poetry of the twentieth century. 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hardminded . . . They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the nihilism, great generosity . . . the book is a major literary event.' A. Alvarez in the Observer

Three Women

Sylvia Plath
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Author : Sylvia Plath
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781904232490

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Three Women by Sylvia Plath Pdf

A radio play in verse, comprised of three intertwining monologues by women in a maternity ward.

Pain, Parties, Work

Elizabeth Winder
Pain Parties Work Book PDF

Author : Elizabeth Winder
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062085528

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Pain, Parties, Work by Elizabeth Winder Pdf

"I dreamed of New York, I am going there." On May 31, 1953, twenty-year-old Sylvia Plath arrived in New York City for a one-month stint at "the intellectual fashion magazine" Mademoiselle to be a guest editor for its prestigious annual college issue. Over the next twenty-six days, the bright, blond New England collegian lived at the Barbizon Hotel, attended Balanchine ballets, watched a game at Yankee Stadium, and danced at the West Side Tennis Club. She typed rejection letters to writers from The New Yorker and ate an entire bowl of caviar at an advertising luncheon. She stalked Dylan Thomas and fought off an aggressive diamond-wielding delegate from the United Nations. She took hot baths, had her hair done, and discovered her signature drink (vodka, no ice). Young, beautiful, and on the cusp of an advantageous career, she was supposed to be having the time of her life. Drawing on in-depth interviews with fellow guest editors whose memories infuse these pages, Elizabeth Winder reveals how these twenty-six days indelibly altered how Plath saw herself, her mother, her friendships, and her romantic relationships, and how this period shaped her emerging identity as a woman and as a writer. Pain, Parties, Work—the three words Plath used to describe that time—shows how Manhattan's alien atmosphere unleashed an anxiety that would stay with her for the rest of her all-too-short life. Thoughtful and illuminating, this captivating portrait invites us to see Sylvia Plath before The Bell Jar, before she became an icon—a young woman with everything to live for.

Mad Girl's Love Song

Andrew Wilson
Mad Girl s Love Song Book PDF

Author : Andrew Wilson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857205902

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Mad Girl's Love Song by Andrew Wilson Pdf

On 25 February 1956, twenty-three-year-old Sylvia Plath walked into a party and immediately spotted Ted Hughes. This encounter - now one of the most famous in all literary history - was recorded by Plath in her journal, where she described Hughes as a 'big, dark, hunky boy'. Sylvia viewed Ted as something of a colossus, and to this day his enormous shadow has obscured Plath's life and work. The sensational aspects of the Plath-Hughes relationship have dominated the cultural landscape to such an extent that their story has taken on the resonance of a modern myth. After Plath's suicide in February 1963, Hughes became Plath's literary executor, the guardian of her writings, and, in effect responsible for how she was perceived. But Hughes did not think much of Plath's prose writing, viewing it as a 'waste product' of her 'false self', and his determination to market her later poetry - poetry written after she had begun her relationship with him - as the crowning glory of her career, has meant that her other earlier work has been marginalised. Before she met Ted, Plath had lived a complex, creative and disturbing life. Her father had died when she was only eight, she had gone out with literally hundreds of men, had been unofficially engaged, had tried to commit suicide and had written over 200 poems. Mad Girl's Love Songwill trace through these early years the sources of her mental instabilities and will examine how a range of personal, economic and societal factors - the real disquieting muses - conspired against her. Drawing on exclusive interviews with friends and lovers who have never spoken openly about Plath before and using previously unavailable archives and papers, this is the first book to focus on the early life of the twentieth century's most popular and enduring female poet. Mad Girl's Love Songreclaims Sylvia Plath from the tangle of emotions associated with her relationship with Ted Hughes and reveals the origins of her unsettled and unsettling voice, a voice that, fifty years after her death, still has the power to haunt and disturb.

Letters Home

Sylvia Plath
Letters Home Book PDF

Author : Sylvia Plath
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571266340

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Letters Home by Sylvia Plath Pdf

Letters Home represents Sylvia Plath's correspondence from her time at Smith College in the early 1950s, through her meeting with, and subsequent marriage to, the poet Ted Hughes, up to her death in February 1963. The letters are addressed mainly to her mother, with whom she had an extremely close and confiding relationship, but there are also some to her brother Warren and her benefactress Mrs Prouty. Plath's energy, enthusiasm and her passionate tackling of life burst onto these pages, providing us with a vivid and intimate portrait of a woman who has come to be regarded as one of the greatest of twentieth-century poets. In addition to her capacity for domestic and writerly happiness, however, these letters also hint at Plath's potential for deep despair, which reached its crisis when she holed up in a London flat for the terrible winter of 1963.

A Lover of Unreason

Yehuda Koren
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Author : Yehuda Koren
Publisher : Robson
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781909396838

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A Lover of Unreason by Yehuda Koren Pdf

'Assia was my true wife, and the best friend I ever had', wrote Ted Hughes, after his lover surrendered her life and that of their young daughter in 1969, six years after Sylvia Plath had suffered a similiar fate. Diva, she-devil, enchantress, muse, Lillith, Jezebel - Assia inspired many epithets during her life. The tragic story of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes has always been related from one of two points of view: hers or his. Missing for over four decades had been a third: that of Hughes's mistress. This first biography of Assia Wevill views afresh the Plath-Hughes relationship and at the same time, recounts the journey that shaped her life. Wevill's is a complex story, formed as it is by the pull of often contrary forces.

The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1

Sylvia Plath
The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1 Book PDF

Author : Sylvia Plath
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 1424 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780062740441

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The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1 by Sylvia Plath Pdf

A major literary event: the first volume in the definitive, complete collection of the letters of Sylvia Plath—most never before seen. One of the most beloved poets of the modern age, Sylvia Plath continues to inspire and fascinate the literary world. While her renown as one of the twentieth century’s most influential poets is beyond dispute, Plath was also one of its most captivating correspondents. The Letters of Sylvia Plath is the breathtaking compendium of this prolific writer’s correspondence with more than 120 people, including family, friends, contemporaries, and colleagues. The Letters of Sylvia Plath includes her correspondence from her years at Smith, her summer editorial internship in New York City, her time at Cambridge, her experiences touring Europe, and the early days of her marriage to Ted Hughes in 1956. Most of the letters are previously unseen, including sixteen letters written by Plath to Hughes when they were apart after their honeymoon. This magnificent compendium also includes twenty-seven of Plath’s own elegant line drawings taken from the letters she sent to her friends and family, as well as twenty-two previously unpublished photographs. This remarkable, collected edition of Plath’s letters is a work of immense scholarship and care, presenting a comprehensive and historically accurate text of the known and extant letters that she wrote. Intimate and revealing, this masterful compilation offers fans and scholars generous and unprecedented insight into the life of one of our most significant poets.

Sylvia Plath

Edward Butscher
Sylvia Plath Book PDF

Author : Edward Butscher
Publisher : IPG
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781936182329

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Sylvia Plath by Edward Butscher Pdf

This is the first full-length biography of Sylvia Plath, whose suicide in made her a misinterpreted cause celebre and catapulted her into the ranks of the major confessional voices of her generation.

Red Comet

Heather Clark
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Author : Heather Clark
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 1185 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307961167

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Red Comet by Heather Clark Pdf

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The highly anticipated biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art. “One of the most beautiful biographies I've ever read." —Glennon Doyle, author of #1 New York Times Bestseller, Untamed With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials, Heather Clark brings to life the brilliant Sylvia Plath, who had precocious poetic ambition and was an accomplished published writer even before she became a star at Smith College. Refusing to read Plath’s work as if her every act was a harbinger of her tragic fate, Clark considers the sociopolitical context as she thoroughly explores Plath’s world: her early relationships and determination not to become a conventional woman and wife; her troubles with an unenlightened mental health industry; her Cambridge years and thunderclap meeting with Ted Hughes; and much more. Clark’s clear-eyed portraits of Hughes, his lover Assia Wevill, and other demonized players in the arena of Plath’s suicide promote a deeper understanding of her final days. Along with illuminating readings of the poems themselves, Clark’s meticulous, compassionate research brings us closer than ever to the spirited woman and visionary artist who blazed a trail that still lights the way for women poets the world over.

Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II

Sylvia Plath
Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II Book PDF

Author : Sylvia Plath
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780571339228

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Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II by Sylvia Plath Pdf

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers that defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. Her vivid, daring and complex poetry continues to captivate new generations of readers and writers. In the Letters, we discover the art of Plath's correspondence. Most has never before been published, and it is here presented unabridged, without revision, so that she speaks directly in her own words. Refreshingly candid and offering intimate details of her personal life, Plath is playful, too, entertaining a wide range of addressees, including family, friends and professional contacts, with inimitable wit and verve. The letters document Plath's extraordinary literary development: the genesis of many poems, short and long fiction, and journalism. Her endeavour to publish in a variety of genres had mixed receptions, but she was never dissuaded. Through acceptance of her work, and rejection, Plath strove to stay true to her creative vision. Well-read and curious, she simultaneously offers a fascinating commentary on contemporary culture. Leading Plath scholar Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil, editor of The Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962, provide comprehensive footnotes and an extensive index informed by their meticulous research. Alongside a selection of photographs and Plath's own drawings, they masterfully contextualise what the pages disclose. This selection of later correspondence witnesses Plath and Hughes becoming major, influential contemporary writers, as it happened. Experiences recorded include first books and other publications; teaching; committing to writing full-time; travels; making professional acquaintances; settling in England; building a family; and buying a house. Throughout, Plath's voice is completely, uniquely her own.

Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz

Gail Crowther
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Author : Gail Crowther
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982138424

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Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz by Gail Crowther Pdf

"A dual biography of poets, friends, and rivals Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton"--

The Unraveling Archive

Anita Plath Helle
The Unraveling Archive Book PDF

Author : Anita Plath Helle
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0472069276

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The Unraveling Archive by Anita Plath Helle Pdf

A collection of eleven essays on Plath's writing with the archive as its informing matrix.