Sylvia Plath and Reclaiming the Gaze
Perhaps as women we are always trying to record the gaze. Marginalized people are often asked to validate our distrust, trepidation, and fear.
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Posts Tagged: ted hughes
Chewing Rocks: A Conversation with David Biespiel
David Biespiel discusses his new book, The Education of a Young Poet, being comfortable in uncertainty, and extending moments in writing.
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Finishing What You Start: A Conversation with Musician Matt Kivel
Matt Kivel discusses his latest release, Fires on the Plain, the ways in which cinema inspires his music, and how he reads his critics.
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The Rumpus Interview with Gonzalo Torné
Acclaimed Spanish novelist Gonzalo Torné discusses his first novel to be translated into English, Divorce Is in the Air, his ideal reader, and the economic crisis in Spain.
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The Rumpus Interview with Max Porter
Max Porter discusses his debut novel, Grief is the Thing with Feathers, literary genres, and the changing roles of editors.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Tess Taylor
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Tess Taylor about her new collection Work & Days, manual labor, and the lyric possibilities in small fields.
...moreFebruary 25th, 1956
… met, by the way, a brilliant ex-Cambridge poet at the wild St. Botolph’s Review party last week; will probably never see him again… but wrote my best poem about him afterwards—the only man I’ve met yet here who’d be strong enough to be equal with—such is life. At Lit Hub, Belinda McKeon pours over the […]
...moreThe Real Life of the Writer
We are quite happy to view images of writers’ desks and read features on ‘Where I Write’. Very different would be to see ‘Where I Sleep’ or ‘Where I Park the Car’; ‘Where I store the extra loo roll’. Of course, it’s not as interesting . . . but it does mean we fail to […]
...moreSylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, the Early Years
‘Marriage is my medium,’ he wrote. ‘You have no idea what a happy life Sylvia and I lead.’ Salon has an exclusive look into the early (and happy) days of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.
...moreIt Should Have Ended With Bees
Plath chose to end her Ariel with four of the five-poem sequence Hughes buried in the middle, the so-called “bee poems.” When Sylvia Plath died, her husband Ted Hughes rearranged the poems in Ariel, Plath’s most famous collection, to reflect his wife’s biographical arc, thus putting the darker writing at the end. Turns out that’s not […]
...moreTed Hughes’s Animals
A new collection called “A Ted Hughes Bestiary” offers selections of Hughes’s animal poems. The Intelligent Life discusses how this work formed “the backbone” of his career.
...moreWeekend Rumpus Roundup
This Sunday, Ted Wilson turned five. Happy anniversary, Ted! In the latest “Last Book I Loved,” Michelle King finds a kindred spirit in Sylvia Plath, who, the first time she kissed husband Ted Hughes, allegedly bit his cheek and drew blood. King, in turn, admits to shattering wine glasses—intentionally and unintentionally—and goes on to declare that […]
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The Last Book I Loved: The Silent Woman
I had recently broken all of my wine glasses. I did not break them all at the same time. Some I broke while cleaning, and I was upset that I had managed to destroy something while trying to make it clean, make it better.
...moreSylvia Plath Inspires Adoration, Scorn
Sylvia Plath has always been a polarizing figure, a fact underscored by the reaction to editions of her work recently released to mark fifty years since her death. Are her poems humorless or funny to the point of kitschiness? Was Ted Hughes a “craggy, carnal bogeyman,” or a long-suffering husband “more sinned against than sinning”? […]
...moreThe Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
“Do not chew on the headphone cords!” — From @electriclit, passive aggressive library signs. Marc Jacobs is pissing off literary West Villagers by opening a book store. At The Guardian, Christine Granados has some fightin’ words for Cormac McCarthy and lists other authors she feels write the American southwest better. Ian McEwan says the novel […]
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