tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45573640204397933722012-02-02T15:39:59.003-05:00This blog will present the latest information regarding Sylvia Plath, including publications and other newsworthy events. It is the official blog of <strong><a href="http://www.sylviaplath.info/index2.html">A celebration, this is</a></strong>, a website for Sylvia Plath.Peter K Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502746737530418049noreply@blogger.comBlogger7001100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4557364020439793372.post-4215773261137489012012-02-02T13:38:00.001-05:002012-02-02T13:38:28.347-05:00

The Department of English at Indiana University is accepting papers for the "Sylvia Plath Symposium 2012: The October Poems" to be held Thursday to Sunday, October 25-28 at the Bloomington campus. This event commemorates the 50-year anniversary of Ariel with a focus on poems Plath wrote in October 1962. While all topics related to Plath's work may be submitted, featured scholars and artists

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This week it is worth calling your attention to "Seeking Sylvia in the Rare Book Room" by Adrianne Kalfopoulou, in the Winter 2012, #18 issue of Del Sol Review. You may remember that last October we learned of Adrianne's essay "Sylvia Plath's Emersonian I/Eye" which appeared in Women's Studies. 40:7. October 2011: 890-909. At the risk of being a spoiler... you can look forward to a reading a

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The Mayor Gallery in London, recently the host of the exhibition "Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings" has copies of limited edition Sylvia Plath publications. They are on sale through the gallery for one more week, ending 3 February. The titles and details are: Pursuit £ 1,000 By Sylvia Plath Rainbow Press, London, 1973 With an etching & drawings by Leonard Baskin Limited edition 22/100 (only 1

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This summer, Dr. Sally Bayley and Linda Gates will teach a Sylvia Plath Interdisciplinary Master Class entitled "Finding a Voice: Sylvia Plath's Poetic Landscapes" at Oxford University in England from 2-5 July 2012. From the course description (accessed 23 January 2012): "This class will take a selection of Sylvia Plath's poetic manuscripts as a starting point for exploring the process of

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The following is a newer article on Sylvia Plath: Rogers, Janine and Charlotte Sleigh. "'Here is my Honey-Machine': Sylvia Plath and the Mereology of the Beehive." The Review of English Studies. November 21, 2011: 1-18. Vote for Plath! Plath is listed among Beacon Hill's most famous/notable residents (see the 18th image; would've been better if she was the 59th). You can vote here! Plath also

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Sylvia Plath visited Richard Norton at Ray Brook near Saranac Lake in New York in late December 1952, she broke her leg skiing on Mount Pisgah: her fibula to be exact. In a letter to Myron "Mike" Lotz, she recounts rather vividly the event which took place on 28 December. She tells him that as she cartwheeled down the mountain a song was playing on the loudspeaker. Did you know... that the song

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The last day of an archival research trip is always a day I do not look forward to at all. The time seems to go neither too fast nor too slow, but inevitably there is not enough of it. This morning I again called for the boxes of Plath's poems, particularly those of October 1962, but also of January 1963. Specifically "Ariel," "Lady Lazarus," "The Munich Mannequins," and "Totem." As I type this,

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The archive today was fun. Karen Kukil had Plath's Royal typewriter out for someone else to photograph, so she and I started typing on it. We were comparing the way it typed against some of the documents Plath created on it, circa 1953 when she obtained it. Plath was quite proficient and efficient on the typewriter...I am not. In the process of working with it, I typed the first sentence from

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In the archive this morning, I revisited some of Sylvia Plath's papers which I have studied before.  I find that revisiting certain series of documents benefits my understanding of how it all fits together - her life, her creative productivity, etc. - and the perspective of time and continued research and learning can be quite beneficial to seeing how the individual, disparate "things" add up to

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The morning begin with a browse through the drafts of Sylvia Plath's poems. I started with the box with poems beginning "A-Be". I wanted to look a bit through some of the early October 1962 poems, and so looked at drafts of "The Bee Meeting" and "The Arrival of the Bee Box". As might be expected, this led me to jump the alpahbet so as to review "Stings," "The Swarm," and "Wintering. When you work

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This morning was beneficial to the paper I am writing on The Bell Jar as I was able to verify some information against Sylvia Plath's typescripts. The Sylvia Plath Collection has a few early, partial drafts, and then a complete set of "later drafts" which maybe could be considered final drafts as one of them was used by Heinemann when they set the type for the book. One of the things I looked at

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View Haven House (Yellow House in background) and Paradise Pond On 29 September 1950, Sylvia Plath wrote to her mother, "I'M A SMITH GIRL NOW" (Letters Home 48). Well, I'm a Smith girl now too. Um...err... Karen Kukil is teaching an interterm course at Smith College this week entitled "Editing Sylvia Plath's Correspondence." The course description is... "This course will teach students

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Fairleigh Dickinson University Press has recently published Poetic Memory: The Forgotten Self in Plath, Howe, Hinsey, and Glück by Uta Gosmann. Congratulations Uta! The Plath chapter, chapter one, is called "Sylvia Plath: Re-membering the Colossus." A review will be forthcoming.

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A few articles to pass along today. First the new one: In Issue 2 (Winter 2011) of the Ted Hughes Society Journal there is Amy Hildreth Chen's "The Perils of Literary Celebrity: The Archival Stories of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath." An excellent read and one that survey's the history of biographical approaches to Plath and Hughes as well as those who act as custodian to her papers - both the

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Some of you have asked me in the past about another Plath Symposium. There is good news on that front... In late October 2012, Indiana University Bloomington's Department of English will host the Sylvia Plath Symposium 2012 commemorating "50 Years of Ariel" -- notably, the October poems of 1962. The focus will be on "Inspiration and the Creative Imagination" and featured speakers and artists now

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If it felt like a big year for Sylvia Plath it is because it was. There were periods of quiet, but that is fine as it gives us a chance to rest, reflect, write, etc.  I do find it hard to sum up a year but have in the past so will attempt to continue now... Sadly, we lost two valuable contributors to Plath scholarship. In June, Jim Long passed away. And before that, quietly in February, Nephie

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Back in 2009, I made an Otto Plath cookie.  I decided to make this year, 2011, a very Sylvia Plath Christmas. **  Inspired by "The Applicant," "We make new stock from the salt." And, further inspired by "Daddy," Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you. And... There's a stake in your fat black heart And the villagers

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Sylvia Plath lived from 27 October 1932 to 11 February 1963. This was 11,064 days; or 30 years, 3 months, 15 days. Sylvia Plath's mid-life was, then, 5532 days.Did you know that that date -Sylvia Plath's mid-life - fell on 20 December 1947 (a Saturday that year). She was 15 years, 1 month, and 23 days; in tenth grade, in her first year at Gamaliel Bradford High School, and it was during this

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Adding to their enviable Kindle edition selection, the British have had available since June in Kindle format the following book: Sylvia Plath's Selected Poems.  Plath's American publishers have to get on the ball here...Back in January, I posted that via Amazon.com, you can ask for them to consider titles for publication in a Kindle edition. So, please visit that post and start clicking so

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Earlier this week, BBC Radio 4 aired "Ted Hughes Memorial Tones." It is a 58 minute long program about his recent memorializing in Poets Corner at Westminster Abbey. The program can be listened to until 17 December. Among those interviewed were Seamus Heaney, Carol Hughes, and Melvyn Bragg, who is the narrator. As can be fathomed, topics discussed include Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Court

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If you are in London this week, plan to see "Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings" at the Mayor Gallery now for the exhibit is coming down by the 16th. Our friend in Plath, Gail Crowther, visited the cloudy city this weekend and send on some more pictures of the exhibit.... Thanks Gail! The first picture is the Willow tree from Grantchester. Perhaps this is the one where she placed her Earthenware head...

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Marsha Bryant, author of several articles on Sylvia Plath, has recently published Women's Poetry and Popular Culture through Palgrave Macmillan.  In this book will be the chapter "Everyday Ariel: Sylvia Plath and the Dream Kitchen." The book was published on 25 November 2011. ISBN: 9780230609419; cost: £52.00. Other chapters look at H.D., Stevie Smith, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ai, and Carol Ann Duffy

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On Tuesday 6 December 2011, Ted Hughes will be memorialized in Poets Corner at Westminster Abbey in London. Frieda Hughes, Carol Hughes, and Seamus Heaney are three among the many expected to attend the service. This news broke in early 2010. A more recent article appeared on Westminster Abbey's website in early November. The Mayor Gallery in London, which is exhibiting "Sylvia Plath: Her

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The following is a synopsis of the play S. Requiem für Sylvia Plath sent to us by Lisa Meinen from Germany. It's dark and cold in the closed trainvault. Only some candles on a old table shows you paper on the stage. You can hear the song "Bloody Ice Cream" from the band Bikini Kills. The light goes on and you can see, there is a chair before a typemachine, some paper, a old day bed (over the

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Recently found the following citations for articles on Sylvia Plath which either have appeared or will appear in journals or in books... Aragno, Anna. "Silent Cries, Dancing Tears: The Metapsychology of Art Revisited/Revised." Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 59: 2. April 2011: 239-288 Boswell, Matthew. "Poetry. Sylvia Plath, Ariel (1965) and Other Poems." In Holocaust

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The majority of the eleven essays in Representing Sylvia Plath (249 pages, ISBN: 978-1-107-00675-1, Cambridge University Press, 2011, also available in two digital editions via the publisher: Mobipocket eBook and Adobe eBook Reader) draw from papers given at the Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium held at Oxford in 2007. The book is divided into three sections: Contexts, Poetics and Composition,

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The Mayor Gallery has posted their installation photographs from the Sylvia Plath exhibit, which closes in just under a months time.Over on the TLS blog, Thea Lenarduzzi posted, on 10 November, "Sylvia Plath, the doodler." The majority of these are not doodles, and the majority of the article is not on the drawings...

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Before we look at Plath at the Boston Book Fair, I have recently learned that several limited edition books of Plath's published by the Rainbow Press are for sale through the Mayor Gallery in London. These books are being sold by both Frieda Hughes and her aunt, Olwyn Hughes. It appears that there is almost a complete liquidation of Plath by her daughter. That appalling thought notwithstanding, I

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The following images of the Sylvia Plath exhibit on at the Mayor Gallery were sent to me from Sarsaparilla Esperanza Gomez. Thank you Ms. Gomez. 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

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Earlier this year we were pleased with a Plath doodle.  Then came the exhibit in London at the Mayor Gallery of "Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings". This led me to "the Google" and I found the following drawing made by a very young Plath. This comes from an article called "Some Relics of Childhood" by Rodney Phillips, which appeared in issue 9 of Cabinet Magazine and was published in Winter 2002/3.

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This weekend (11-13 November 2011) is the 35th Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair to be held as usual at the Hynes Convention Center. As usual I will walk around and obsess and drool over all things Plath and report back back books, prices and what not. Hopefully will score some photographs, too, to share with you. Read about the fair in 2010 here. And I did two posts in 2008: the first

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Sylvia Plath was the $800 answer today on Jeopardy's category "Verse Case Scenario". The best part is, the guy that got it right's first name was Buddy! Sorry about the flash glare. For those concerned, the line is "Dying is an art..."  This is Plath's second recent appearance on Jeopardy.

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Two new reviews to mention today on the exhibit of "Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings." Sam Leith at The Observer reviews quite favorably the exhibit in "These drawings give us a whole new Sylvia Plath – sprightly, witty and fun" which appeared on 6 November 2011. B.K. at The Economist lightly reviews in "Sylvia Plath’s Drawings: An Unbearable Lightness" on 7 November 2011.  It is clear that many

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Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings. (London: The Mayor Gallery, 2011), 63 pages. ISBN: 978-0-9558367-8-7. Illustrated. Hardcover, no dust wrapper, as issued. The catalogue for the exhibit of "Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings" is a gem. The bold red cover is of a quintessential Plathian nature, and is reminiscent of the exhibition catalogue for Karen V. Kukil and Stephen Enniss' "No Other Appetite":

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Michael Glover at The Independent coolly reviews the exhibition "Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings" which is now on at the Mayor Gallery in London. The subtitle to the review, "Plath the tortured poet's pictures are too polite to be a big draw" says all you'll need to read... But he just does not get it. Or, at least he does not get Plath. Glover asks, "What we really want to know about this exhibition

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The Mayor Gallery exhibit of "Sylvia Plath's Drawings" opens today at their space at 22A Cork Street in London. Containing 44 drawings, this is the first British exhibition of Plath's artwork.  In the "Current" section of their website, it is possible to view all 44 drawings. Bravo! In 2002 at the Sylvia Plath 70th Year Symposium held at Indiana University, many of Plath's creations were

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Recently published by Baseline Press, The Black Car by Christine Walde features poems inspired by Sylvia Plath. In these poems we join Walde on an journey into Plath's brief sojourn to Canada in the summer of 1959. Subtitled Reflections on Lethe, The Black Car also finds its poetry sourced from H.D., Charles Baudelaire, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. The poems are completely original and in

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Readers of this blog, Plath Profiles, and contemporary American poetry will be familiar with the name of the poet and writer David Trinidad. Recently Dear Prudence, his new and selected poems, was published by Turtle Point Press and within its wonderful pages are a number of poems on Sylvia Plath. Trinidad has a way of getting at the essence of Sylvia Plath in his poems.  His poetry shows

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The Telegraph has additional images and information about the forthcoming show of Sylvia Plath's drawings on at the Mayor Gallery in London (2 November - 16 December). An additional article on the exhibit appeared on Spoonfed.co.uk.

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In The Observer, issue printed on 23 October 2011, Frieda Hughes has more to say on her mother, Sylvia Plath's, art in "Lines of Beauty: The Art of Sylvia Plath."  Excellently, included is a gallery of 11of  Plath's drawings. Thank you for sharing this artwork with us, Ms. Hughes.

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The essays in Janet Badia's Sylvia Plath and the Mythology of Women Readers are tightly wound around the central thesis that there is a "reliance of literary and popular culture on the tropes meant to disparage Plath's fans, especially the young women readers among them, as uncritical consumers, as Plath addicts, and even as literary cannibals" (2). In following a discourse that "rather

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Thanks to Melanie for the link to Troy Brooks' website, in which Sylvia Plath connoisseurs can view images of his paintings from his 'Colossus' series.

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Earlier this week, I launched new thumbnail pages on my website for Sylvia Plath (A celebration, this is). The new thumbnail pages are a bit fancier than before, and I hope that it is an enhancement that makes being on the website more enjoyable. The main landing page for the photo galleries is here. In each page, when you click a thumbnail, the image will pop up. Beneath the image will be some

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P. H. Davies has recently reviewed Cambridge University Presses book Representing Sylvia Plath, edited by Sally Bayley and Tracy Brain.  As we've come to know, Davies has a keen eye and a knack for critical perspective, this review is no different. The book's publication date was in flux for a while but it does appear now to be available in the United States (though CUP's website still says it

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Our good friend in Plath P H Davies has just blogged about the Frieda Hughes article in Vogue (UK) over on his website. Please give it a careful read. Also he gives more information on the exhibit of Sylvia Plath's drawings on at the Mayor Gallery in London.

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On 26 July, 2011, Arlaina Tibensky's novel And Then Things Fall Apart  was published. A working title of the book was "Bell Jar Summer," and you may remember that I mentioned it in a blog post back in the summer of 2010. My deepest apologies to her and the books potential readers, through this blog, for failing to publicize the novel before now. And Then Things Fall Apart is the summer story

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Whilst details of the exhibition are sketchy, the November issue of Vogue (UK), reports, "On the eve of an exhibition of her mother's sketches, Frieda Hughes, daughter of Sylvia Plath, writes movingly on living with the Plath-Hughes legacy - and what it means to her - in Drawings of the Past." If anyone has access to the full article please let us know! Thanks to Kristina "the Macedonian

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The following are some recently published articles on Sylvia Plath: Demjen, Zsofia. "Motion and conflicted self metaphors in Sylvia Plath's 'Smith Journal'." Metaphor and the Social World 1:1. 2011: 7-25. Kalfopoulou, Adrianne. "Sylvia Plath's Emersonian I/Eye". Women's Studies. 40:7. October 2011: 890-909. Kumlu, Esin. "The Mona Lisa Smile Of Sylvia Plath: Destroying The Distorted Picture Of

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Congratulations to Janet Badia, whose book Sylvia Plath and the Mythology of Women Readers was recently published by University of Massachusetts Press. You can purchase the book from Amazon.com; UMass Press; Amazon.co.uk; and you can like it on Facebook. The book looks most promising and I expect to review it on this blog before too long. Chapters include: Introduction: "There Is No Such

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P H Davies recently visited North Tawton and writes about it on his blog. The photographs of Court Green are among the best I've ever seen (and the rest of his blog and website are worthy of reading too, so, go on, treat yourself). You will remember the excellent book reviews he has posted, most recently on Heather Clark's The Grief of Influence and Kathleen Connors and Sally Bayley's Eye Rhymes:

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The below is a guest post by Gail Crowther and discusse some of the wonders she found in the Plath Collection at Smith College during her visit to America in July and August... Did You Know.... For those of you who have read "These Ghostly Archives 1, 2 & 3", you will know that Peter and I are very interested in the minutiae of papers, pictures, scraps of paper relating to Plath.... In a

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The Poetry Foundation has announced that in 2012, the US Postal Service will be honoring ten poets with postage stamps. UPDATE: The Observer ran an article, "Sylvia Plath given stamp of approval", by Vanessa Thorpe on Sunday 18 September.

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Hello, the first of some biggish changes was activated today on my website for Sylvia Plath, A celebration, this is. On the homepage (linked just above), I have added a Google custom search tool. This will enable web browsers to search the entire website, which I hope means that you will find your content even faster. When you type in the search box, a new tab or window will appear with the

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Cambridge University Press has published the Cambridge Companion to Ted Hughes, edited by Terry Gifford. Like Jo Gill's Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath, the book starts with a chapter titled "The Problem of Biography;" however, Hughes' "Problem of Biography" is written by Joanny Moulin. I am beginning to see a trend here with "biography" and "problems" and these poets... Jo Gill contributes

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As Hurricane Irene aims for Massachusetts and much of the east coast of the US, the New Yorker's Book Bench posted some good hurricane reads, including as you might hope, Sylvia Plath's "Ocean 1212-W." Unfortunately for the blogger, Macy Halford, she seems to have relied on the dating of "Ocean 1212-W" to what is printed in Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams...she should have read through some

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Fifty years ago today, on August 22, 1961, Sylvia Plath sent her friend Jack Sweeney, then curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room, a letter and enclosed the worksheets/drafts of her poem "Tulips." Did you know that shortly thereafter - about two months - Sweeney put the poem on display at the Woodberry Poetry Room? The first notice of the exhibit appears in the "Metropolitan Boston Calendar: A

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Cambridge University Press has published Representing Sylvia Plath, edited by Tracy Brain and Sally Bayley. The book is now available in the UK and will be available in the USA in September, though you may be able to order from CUP now... To order the book through Cambridge University Press, click here. The retail price is £50.00, which is substantial but I suspect work every penny or pence.

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In June I posted this, but thought it might be nice to remind you of an event next week in Illinois... PRESS RELEASE For release: Immediately For more information, call: Jenna Todoroff (618-239-6043) or email: jtodoroff@lindenwood.edu "Re-Interpreting Sylvia Plath's poem, "Daddy" as a tale of Freud, King Brutus, and Conrad's Heart of Darkness" Thursday, August 25, 2011

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On Saturday, Gail Crowther, who is visiting from England, and I did a little tour of Winthrop, Nahant, and Swampscott to see Plath's North Shore. While on the beach at Nahant, we decided to conduct a bit of an archaeological dig to try to make and discover a bit of history... For those interested, please re-read the first bit of Chapter Thirteen of The Bell Jar, and then view the following...

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Emily Gould over at the Poetry Foundation has recently published "The Bell Jar at 40." Of course this being 2011, it is the 40th anniversary of The Bell Jar's publication in America, an anniversary which previously escaped my cognizance. Although you didn't ask, I do not care much for the article's subtitle: "Plath's YA novel reaches middle age." Perhaps for obvious reasons? YA (Young Adult)

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Back in January I mentioned that Carmela Ciuraru's Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms (ISBN: 9780061735264) was to be published in June. It was and now suddenly it is August. Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms "includes a series of brief biographical explorations of the secretive writers behind some of history's most famous and enduring pseudonyms." The chapter on Plath

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Finally after sitting on this information for nearly a year, I can post about the archival Plath material contained within the Oscar Williams mss. at the Lilly Library. The Oscar Williams mss, 1920-1966 contains seven poems by Sylvia Plath; and in addition, holds several photographs in which Plath appears (and Ted Hughes too). Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes visited Oscar Williams in New York in

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Edward Butscher's biography Sylvia Plath: Method & Madness is now available in Kindle book format.  It is also available through Amazon.co.uk. In case you were struck, as I was, at the incessant repetition of the phrase "bitch goddess" in the text and wondered just how many times it was used...the mystery has been solved! It appears 40 times. 30 times as "the bitch goddess"; 3 as "her bitch

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On 25 June, I mentioned that a self-portrait by Sylvia Plath was going to be auctioned via Sotheby's today, 14 July, in Lot 98. The estimate was between 3,000 and 5,000 GBP. The item did sell for 3,750 GBP including buyers premiums. The self-portrait dates from July 25, 1949, this is roughly three and a half months before her famous diary entry on November 13, 1949.

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A few Sylvia Plath articles to refer you to today, though I am sure you are all still engrossed with Plath Profiles 4!!! P. H. Davies has recently reviewed Kathleen Connor's and Sally Bayley’s Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath’s Art of the Visual. Jane Dowson has a chapter called "Towards a new confessionalism: Elizabeth Jennings and Sylvia Plath" in the recently published The Cambridge Companion to

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Plath Profiles 4 is now available for your reading pleasure. Contributors and contributions include: Editor's Note by W. K. Buckley Essays Sylvia Plath in Belfast by Gerald Dawe "I am, in my deep soul, happiest on the Moors": The Impact of Dealing with the World Beyond the Shores of the United States in the Life and Work of Sylvia Plath by Maeve O'Brien Dreaming Houses and Stilled Suburbs:

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Helen Eastman of Live Canon is directing two performances of Sylvia Plath's verse poem "Three Women." Performed by Holly Atkins, Rebecca Blackstone, and Helena Johnson, theater-goers and poetry lovers alike, in London on 8 July and 14 July can enjoy Plath's words live. When I saw/heard Robert Shaw's production of "Three Women" in New York City last fall, "Three Women" was absolutely transformed

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The rare book and manuscript dealer Glenn Horowitz, in New York City, has just posted on their blog a fascinating Sylvia Plath document. The "Class Song - 1950" which Plath (words) co-composed with Robert Blakesley (music) was to be sung upon the occasion of their graduation from high school. In all probability, this is the same document which failed to sell at at 14 July 2009, Sotheby's auction

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Just an FYI: if you "like" Plath Profiles on Facebook (because when you like something on Facebook, you officially like something), you may be in for a treat. The Guest Editor (Gail Crowther, aka, Gee Cee) and I are going to post sneak previews on Facebook between now and then. When is then? Then is when Plath Profiles 4 will be live... Get your Plath on!

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Ted Hughes, in April, received a blue plaque in North Tawton. Thanks to Cath for the link. The poor Sylvia Plath letter that failed to sell in February through Bonham’s, also failed to sell in a June 22 auction and Bonham’s in New York, and for a reduced estimate. I have about $45 dollars to my name so in another year, at this rate, I might be able to buy it! If you have an estimated 3,000-

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While Plath Profiles 4 is being put together - and it is, indeed, in the process of being put together - I needed a bit of an escape, hence this post. If Sylvia Plath had an iPod of mp3 player, what do you think would be on her playlist? Here are a list of some possibilities, that for some reason or another, seem Plathian to me: Haemoglobin - Placebo Pounding - Doves Sabotage - The Beastie Boys

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This afternoon Sylvia Plath scholarship lost a friend. James H "Jim" Long passed away after a nearly year-long battle with cancer. Many of you will remember Jim's contributions both to the Sylvia Plath Forum and to this blog. He was a passionate expert, even-toned, and very giving man: and this is just towards Plath. I never met Jim but he was a friend. Jim published three poems in Plath

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Plath Profiles 4 is nearly ready to be put together. We have more than 50 contributions this issue. Ok, 51. Visitors to the Plath Profiles website will notice that we have now a detail from Volume 4's cover which is of Kristina Zimbakova's "Out of the Shoe and into the Cauldron." Kristina is as you know a Macedonian artist and Plath scholar, and recently she has seen a selection of poems of

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PH Davies has reviewed Heather Clark’s The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes.  A wonderfully, beautifully written review.Recently I learned of a two articles that were previously not a part of any known Plath bibliography.  They are now a part of the one I am building...Reilly, Erlene. "Sylvia Plath: Talent Poet Tortured Women." Perspectives in Psychiatric Care 16:3. May 1978: 129-

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The following was sent to me by our mutual friend-in-Plath, Julia Gordon-Bramer.  You may be interested to know that in addition to Julia's talk on Plath's "Daddy," she will be publishing an interpretation of "Fever 103" in Plath Profiles 4 this summer. I will try to remind you in august a little closer to the time! ---- PRESS RELEASEFor release:  ImmediatelyFor more information, call:Jenna

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Last Friday I gave a brief paper entitled "A Perfectly Beautiful Time: Plath’s Nostalgia" in a panel organized by Steven Gould Axelrod called "Robert Lowell & His Circle" at the 22nd Annual American Literature Association conference in Boston. You will never guess the subject of my paper...True confession: I cheated a bit. For the main portion of the paper I used the introduction to my paper

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Hello, just a brief update to remind people in England about Tim Kendall's public lecture on "Sylvia Plath in Devon" next week on 1 June. Read more about it in the original post from a few weeks back. If anyone who reads this blog attends, I am sure we would all love an review/synopsis.

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Sylvia Plath graduated Smith College with honors in June 1955. She had spent her senior year working on a special honors thesis which she titled: "The Magic Mirror: A Study of the Double in Two of Dostoevsky's Novels." Her originally submitted typescript is held by the Mortimer Rare Book Room at Smith College (a microfilm copy also exists). Additionally, a typescript carbon of the work, as well

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A recent change was made to Plath Profiles that involved the changing of the main url to the site. The old url http://www.iun.edu/~plath has been changed to http://www.iun.edu/~nwadmin/plath. Please update your bookmarks. If you do find a link out there with the old url, never fear it is automatically redirected to the main page. But, more importantly, if you link directly to your paper, poem,

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Sylvia Plath was mightily stoked that she got to live in the flat that formerly served as home to a young W. B. Yeats. But, did you know that another house that Plath "occupied" had a writerly association, as well. That was the house she borrowed in the spring and early summer of 1961 while she was writing The Bell Jar. Please see what I'm talking about and stop by Tracie Bylo Hitching's "Mad,

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First, some kind of non-Plath business... I received the following in an email from the London Rare Book School. As I do go on about books and manuscripts & archives and special collections from time to time, this may be of interest to some of this blogs' readers. London Rare Books School will be running in two sessions from 27 June – 8 July, 2011. LRBS still has spaces available for some of its

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Tim Kendall, author of Sylvia Plath: A Critical Study, will be giving a talk on “Plath in Devon” at 5pm on 1 June in Lecture Theatre 1 of the Queen's Building, University of Exeter, Streatham Campus. Advanced booking is essential. To reserve your seat email N.R.Glanville@exeter.ac.uk or telephone 01392 725879.

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Review of Stepanka Neumann's Sylvia Plath's Ambivalent Depictions of the Female Identity Poetry (Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovac, 2009) 177 pp. ISBN: 978-3-8300-4748-3 Stepanka Neumann's Sylvia Plath's Ambivalent Depictions of the Female Identity Poetry is an English translation of her originally titled Weibliche Identität und ihre literarischen Ausdrucksformen in den Werken von Sylvia Plath (Gender

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As you know I am interested in Sylvia Plath books - both those written by her, about her, as well as those from either her personal library or those that she read. Frequently at book fairs I put on my horse blinders and scour stalls solely for Plath books. Anyway, I know people that collect Sylvia Plath books and very recently one of them started a new blog that highlight books in a

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Thanks to Anonymous for being the only one to respond to the trivia questions. This was my second attempt at this (See the trivia 16 June 2008 and the answers on 29 June 2008) and both were relatively poorly received. Ho hum; seems like the “Did you know...” is a better way to go. The answers are: 1. In the fall of 1954, during the first semester of her senior year at Smith College, which

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Stephen Enniss, the Eric Weinmann Librarian at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC and former Director of Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, has an article in the current Times Literary Supplement called "Ted Hughes, archives and alligators: How – and why – writers' papers end up in British and American libraries." A fascinating article.

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Today Sylvia Plath Info Blog is four years old. In blog years, that is about 80 - which is half as old as Joan Rivers. With that - and I have been thinking about this a long time - I have done a redesign of the blog, which I hope you all like!Here are some trivia questions for you to consider. The answers will be posted in a few days.In the fall of 1954, during the first semester of her senior

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If you have tried to access A celebration, this is, my website for Sylvia Plath since the weekend you may have noticed that it has been down. The host for the site is doing a server migration and this has lead to some down time. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you but hopefully the down time will cease soon! Thank you!

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In January, I did a post on Kindle book editions of Sylvia Plath’s books (by and about), covering those separately available to Kindle readers in the US & UK. Here is an update:Now available in Kindle edition for US residentsRevising Life: Sylvia Plath’s Ariel Poems by Susan R. Van Dyne.(Recently a review of Revising Life appeared on the web by Sheila O’Malley. Read it here.)I really keep hoping

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Readers of Sylvia Plath, be on the lookout for Eavan Boland’s A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet (published April 11, 2011, by W. W. Norton & Company). In addition to "The Other Sylvia Plath," Boland writes on herself, Adrienne Rich, Charlotte Mew, Elizabeth Bishop, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Denise Levertov, Anne Bradstreet, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Paula Meehan.Thanks to Melanie in

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So, it seems like today I'm just sending you away. However, please come back If you've anything to say... Over on ladylazarus.tv, Florian Flur has posted a rare photograph of Sylvia Plath, taken by the poet, translator, and photographer Siv Arb. He has posted next to it the color photograph from the same photo shoot that we should all more or less be familiar with. However, this black and white

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The following is a guest post by Sheila Hamilton, whom you may remember reviewed "Wuthering Heights" on this blog. Sheila's poem "Walking in the Underworld" was published in Plath Profiles 2, and she is the author of Corridors of Babel.The first time I went to Heptonstall was in August 1995. Just along the road from the village, then down a lane into the Calder valley, is a large and rather

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The following was recently sent to me for your consideration. The event will be at the Forbes Library in Northampton, Mass. on Wednesday 13 April, and starts at 7 P.M.Join us for an evening inspired by twentieth century poet Sylvia Plath. Coolidge Room.Karen V. Kukil, Associate Curator of Special Collections at Smith College, will give a general introduction to Plath’s poetry entitled, “The

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Did you know that from 1962 to 1995, British editions of The Bell Jar contained a typo? The word "and" was spelled "amd" in Chapter 16 in the scene where Esther Greenwood reviews clippings from her disappearance given to her by Joan Gilling! See below:The clipping amd image described by Plath is without a doubt that which ran in The Boston Globe on August 26, 1953. The article title reads "

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My article "Proof of Plath" on the proof of the Victoria Lucas edition of The Bell Jar is now available through Fine Books & Collections. You can find it on pages 11 and 12! Order your copy of the Spring 2011 issue here. Later on this week I'll have - for a change - a post about Sylvia Plath.

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The following is a guest post, answering my recent request for contributions to this blog by those who collect Sylvia Plath books or have interesting stories about their collections. If you collect Plath too, and want to share, please email me!**** **** **** **** *Peter's recent postings on Plath books and manuscripts at auctions and his history of highlighting collecting, collectors, and

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Tomorrow is the deadline for Plath Profiles 4 submissions. If your submission is received after tomorrow it may be considered for the issue, but will more than likely have to wait until Plath Profiles 5 in the summer of 2012.

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Earlier I've gone through the sold/past lot of Sotheby's and Christie's. Today it's Bonhams & Buttefields. B & B's sold lot archive only goes back to 2003 as of right now. In lot 418 on 29 June 2004, a Heinemann first edition of The Bell Jar by Victoria Lucas sold for £1,673. In lot 89 on 11 May 2005, a threesome set of First Faber editions sold for £165. The three titles were Ariel, Crossing

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Be on the lookout for an article on Sylvia Plath by Carl Rollyson, forthcoming this weekend on BiblioBuffet. The article title and direct link will be placed here once it's up... UPDATE: Rollyson's article "Revisionist Biography" is now online.Rollyson is working on a biography of Plath scheduled to be published in 2013, around the time of the 50th anniversary of her death. You can learn

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Just a brief auction sold lot to mention today. Heritage Auctions.On one of the most Plathian days in 2009, June 16, a lovely Victoria Lucas edition of The Bell Jar sold in Lot 37219 for $1553.50 inclusive of buyers premium.The description from the sale reads:"[Sylvia Plath]. Victoria Lucas [pseudonym]. The Bell Jar. London: Heinemann, 1963."First edition. Octavo. 258 pages. Dust jacket designed

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