Tag: Sylvia Plath
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‘Fugue’ and other poems by Chelsea Dingman
British Columbia Pastoral September: almost snow. White sheets across the sky, the fields. How strange the frost, feral over desert hills. Sage brush caught in the cattle’s teeth. The river cuts a swath where I am trying to tell you about grass that presses up through the ground without urging. About…
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John Felstiner, a translation of ‘Todesfuge’ by Paul Celan
Black milk of daybreak we drink you at night/ we drink you at morning and midday we drink you at evening/ we drink and we drink/ A man lives in the house he plays with his vipers he writes/ he writes when it grows dark to Deutschland your golden hair Margareta/ Your ashen hair Shulamith…
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A link to a VIDA conversation with poet Jane Hirshfield.
“I discovered sexism’s glass walls—which do exist still, to a shocking degree—later rather than earlier. A great blessing, that belatedness. As a young person, I felt the world’s heritage of art and literature was mine to forage.” (Jane Hirshfield) This week’s blog post contains just two small links because family duties had called me away from my…
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“Chorus of the Rescued” by Nelly Sachs
We, the rescued, From whose hollow bones death had begun to whittle his flutes, And on whose sinews he had already stroked his bow— Our bodies continue to lament With their mutilated music. We, the rescued, The nooses would for our necks still dangle Before us the blue air— Hourglasses still fill with our…
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A Saturday Woman Poet, Eavan Boland.
Whilst reading the Chris Agee edited Poetry (October – November 1995), I happened upon the truly beautiful Mother Ireland, penned by Eavan Boland. I am adding a Boston Globe interview (excerpted) and Eavan Boland link, entitled Exploring Poetry’s ‘Lesser Space‘ to the blog as this week’s Saturday Woman Poet , which is becoming a regular item on the…
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Restored Music; Sylvia Plath’s ‘Ariel’
Restored Music : Sylvia Plath’s ‘Ariel’ The first edition of Ariel was published by Faber and Faber in 1965. I am not going to trawl the pit of controversy over the Hughes selection, it has been done. The arguments and counter-arguments are known to mostly all lovers of Plath‘s writing. I will point the general reader to Hughes’…
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A Saturday Woman Poet: Emily Dickinson
Chosen by Anna I. Banish Air from Air – Divide light if you dare – They’ll meet While Cubes in a drop Or Pellets of Shape Fit Films cannot annul Odors return whole Force Flame And with a blonde push Over your impotence Flits Stream. “ II. An awful Tempest mashed the…
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UBUWEB and ‘Homad’ , Ethnopoetics and Translation
UBUWEB and Pierre Joris‘ , ‘Homad’ Poethead has always been about books, indeed the idea initially was to share lots of women poets who have gone out of print or are not easily obtainable (save online through Amazon and such places). The blog came about as a result of an small bequest of books that Marianne Agren Mc Elroy’s daughter had given…
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A Saturday Woman Writer , Doris Lessing.
I have referred here before to the book that creeps me out the most,The Fifth Child , indeed I took down my copy again last night to read up for today’s post; but I ended up deweeding the garden where my tree was being invaded by a parasitic alien Clematis, and my rose’s roots being pushed…
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‘Maudlin’ By Sylvia Plath.
Mud-Matressed under the sign of the hag In a clench of blood, the sleep-talking virgin Gibbets her curse, the moon’s man, Faggot-bearing jack in his crackless egg; Hatched with a claret hogshead to swig He kings it, navel-knit to no groom, But at the price of a pin-stitched skin Fish-tailed girls purchase each white leg.…
Chris Murray 