The pictures are shown in the L-shaped part at the back of the gallery and are displayed quite crowded with little space between them. Reminds me of Plath's description of her father's headstone in her Journals, "headstones together, as if the dead were sleeping head to head in a poorhouse." You can get an idea of the frames from the photos: thin mahogony ones.
I am aware that the gallery itself had installation photographs taken last week, so we can expect to see more of what the exhibit looks like then.
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Wow, thanks Ms. Gomez!
I visited the exhibition on Saturday. I turned up at the same time as the chap who opened up the gallery. I was followed by another lady who was taking photographs. There is also the typescript of her poem 'Brasilia' on display which I'm unsure has been published elsewhere before though the likelihood is that it has.
Rehan,
Thanks. Did you like the drawings? Was there something more immediate about seeing them in person versus on the computer screen? This will help me be jealous if you say there was...
"Brasilia" was published in the Plath issue of The Review in October 1963, in the limited edition of Lyonnesse, in Winter Trees, and in Collected Poems. In addition, for Lyonnesse "Braslia" was printed separately as a specimen page during the books production.
pks
Yes, it is definitely worth seeing the real thang, seeing the scuffs and things that marr 'the roots that clutch'. I meant to wonder whether the typescript had been published before somewhere, the poem itself has of course been included in the Plath collections.
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