Beschreibung:
Julia Gordon-BramerJulia Bramer is a Sylvia Plath scholar, professional tarot card reader, award-winning writer and poet, and former professor for the Graduate Writing Program at Lindenwood University. She is the author of several books, including Fixed Stars Govern a Life: Decoding Sylvia Plath and Tarot Life Lessons. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
Explores Sylvia Plath’s enduring interest and active practice in mysticism and the occult from childhood until her tragic death in 1963
Preface: Missing the MysticismPART ONESylvia Plath1 “April Aubade”2 “Love Is a Parallax”3 “Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea”4 “Family Reunion”5 “Denouement”6 “Aerialist”7 “Black Pine Tree in an Orange Light”8 “Morning in the Hospital Solarium”9 “Notes to a Neophyte”10 “Dialogue En Route”PART TWOTed Hughes11 “Ode to Ted”12 “Sonnet to Satan”13 “Firesong”PART THREEPlath and Hughes, Together14 “Pursuit”15 “Wreath for a Bridal”16 “Bucolics”17 “The Lady and the Earthenware Head”18 “Ouija”19 “A Winter’s Tale”20 “Electra on Azalea Path”21 “The Manor Garden”22 “Magi”23 “Parliament Hill Fields”24 “The Moon and the Yew Tree”25 “Three Women”26 “Burning the Letters”27 “Fever 103°”28 “Edge”PART FOURAfter Plath29 “Contusion”30 “Gigolo”31 “Mystic”32 “Words”AcknowledgmentsPrimary Sources: Abbreviation ListSylvia’s LibraryIndex