Sylvia Plath Info: New Poetry Collection Features 3 Plath-Inspired Poems

11 September 2010

New Poetry Collection Features 3 Plath-Inspired Poems

Recently published by BOA Editions is Burning of the Three Fires by Jeanne Marie Beaumont. Beaumont’s new collection includes three poems from her suite of poems on Sylvia Plath. The good news about this is that there are more poems in the suite! I first learned of Beaumont and her Plath poems in the journal Court Green which featured a Dossier on Plath in their fifth issue.

Re-reading the two Court Green poems in Burning of the Three Fires --“[EXIT CORPSE]” and “Channeling Sylvia: 8-Ball (Interrogation)” -- again brings to my mind Beaumont’s freshness, playfulness, and originality of poetic interpretation and inspiration. The third poem “Hail” was new to me and is a seamless fit into her Suite.

Congratulations Jeanne Marie!

P.S. If you like "[EXIT CORPSE]" which takes its lines from Plath's novel The Bell Jar, you might also like Sarah Nichols' "An Air Crackling With Blue Light" from Plath Profiles 3.

1 comments:

Julia said...: Nice! I will try and support my poetic colleagues and pick this up.

I enjoyed Sarah Nichols' work, too. Especially the creativity of "An Air Crackling with Blue Light" using all Plath's own lines. That's a brilliant idea (Argh! Punny!).; 11 September, 2010 11:24

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Publications & Acknowledgements

BBC Four.A Poet's Guide to Britain: Sylvia Plath. London: BBC Four, 2009. (Acknowledged in)
Biography: Sylvia Plath. New York: A & E Television Networks, 2005. (Photographs used)
Connell, Elaine. Sylvia Plath: Killing the angel in the house. 2d ed. Hebden Bridge: Pennine Pens, 1998. (Acknowledged in)
Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. "These Ghostly Archives." Plath Profiles 2. Summer 2009: 183-208.
Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. "These Ghostly Archives, Redux." Plath Profiles 3. Summer 2010: 232-246.
Crowther, Gail and Peter K. Steinberg. "These Ghostly Archives 3." Plath Profiles 4. Summer 2011: 119-138.
Death Be Not Proud: The Graves of Poets. New York: Poets.org. (Photographs used)
Doel, Irralie, Lena Friesen and Peter K. Steinberg. "An Unacknowledged Publication by Sylvia Plath." Notes & Queries 56:3. September 2009: 428-430.
Elements of Literature, Third Course. Austin, Tex. : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2009. (Photograph used)
Helle, Anita. "Lessons from the Archive: Sylvia Plath and the Politics of Memory". Feminist Studies 31:3. Fall 2005: 631-652.. (Acknowledged in)
Helle, Anita Plath. The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. (Photographs used, acknowledged in)
Holden, Constance. Sad Poets' Society. Science Magazine. 27 July 2008. (Photograph used)
Making Trouble: Three Generations of Funny Jewish Women, Motion Picture. Directed by Rachel Talbot. Brookline (Mass.): Jewish Women's Archive, 2007. (Photograph used)
Plath, Sylvia, and Karen V. Kukil. 2000. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962. New York: Anchor Books. (Acknowledged in)
Gill, Jo. "Sylvia Plath in the South West." University of Exeter Centre for South West Writing, 2008. (Photograph used)
Reiff, Raychel Haugrud. Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar and Poems (Writers and Their Works). Marshall Cavendish Children's Books, 2008.. (Images provided)
Plath, Sylvia. Glassklokken. Oslo: De norske Bokklubbene, 2004. (Photograph used on cover)
Steinberg, Peter K. Sylvia Plath (Great Writers). Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2004.
Steinberg, Peter K. "'I Should Be Loving This': Sylvia Plath's 'The Perfect Place' and The Bell Jar." Plath Profiles 1. Summer 2008: 253-262.
Steinberg, Peter K. "'They Had to Call and Call': The Search for Sylvia Plath." Plath Profiles 3. Summer 2010: 106-132.
Steinberg, Peter K. "This is a Celebration: A Festschrift for The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath." Plath Profiles 3 Supplement. Fall 2010: 3-14.
Steinberg, Peter K. "Sylvia Plath." The Spoken Word: Sylvia Plath. London: British Library, 2010.
Steinberg, Peter K. "Proof of Plath." Fine Books & Collections 9:2. Spring 2011: 11-12.
Steinberg, Peter K. "A Perfectly Beautiful Time: Sylvia Plath at Camp Helen Storrow." Plath Profiles 4. Summer 2011: 149-166.