tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388361.post7661144207026511849..comments2023-10-24T05:17:13.671-07:00Comments on Spooks By Me: I keep thinking about PlathK. Lorraine Grahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03974374662095094031noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388361.post-65237351989677064272009-05-12T10:41:00.000-07:002009-05-12T10:41:00.000-07:00I was introduced to Plath about ten years after I ...I was introduced to Plath about ten years after I read Emily D. and Edna St. Vincent Millay. When I finally read her, I was impressed by her humor; I always read "Daddy" as a fabulously funny poem. I didn't read Sexton's Transformations until a year after I'd published my book, and only because everyone kept telling me, "This reminds me of Transformations."Jeanninehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16419593830749483323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388361.post-22277082220652337182009-05-12T03:06:00.000-07:002009-05-12T03:06:00.000-07:00in reference to the collected poems. from memory ...in reference to the collected poems. from memory the sound/presence of the train near her.<br />by bibliomancy right now I land on the year 1963 Sheep in fog and the Munich Manniquins . both use snow first as whiteness=cold as snow breath in fact the latter riffs on snow in a few different ways. ha the first one has the train.Totem the train again. snow appears again in latter poems etc. <br />a random pick tooK. Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388361.post-48739730676975356572009-05-11T15:59:00.000-07:002009-05-11T15:59:00.000-07:00Hi K. Grady--thanks for your comment. Would you mi...Hi K. Grady--thanks for your comment. Would you mind being more specific--what kinds of images are you thinking of? It's been some time since I read Ariel...K. Lorraine Grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03974374662095094031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388361.post-65953579688868358342009-05-11T15:34:00.000-07:002009-05-11T15:34:00.000-07:00I was always was impressed by Plath's inventivenes...I was always was impressed by Plath's inventiveness. To use the same image in poems often a day apart to mean something quite different. It takes a great imagination for that. or a poetic will that can mold the environment as it wishes.K. Gradynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388361.post-4697915579052934762009-05-11T13:07:00.000-07:002009-05-11T13:07:00.000-07:00That's some pretty winning melodrama, for sure. I'...That's some pretty winning melodrama, for sure. I've tried the Bell Jar a few times, but not recently--but I'm often like that with some books. I have to be in the right headspace. <br /><br />I often wonder what I would have thought of Plath if I'd been exposed to her before I'd finished high school.K. Lorraine Grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03974374662095094031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13388361.post-54040056715661029882009-05-11T12:39:00.000-07:002009-05-11T12:39:00.000-07:00The Bell Jar is a terrific novel, I think, like Sa...The Bell Jar is a terrific novel, I think, like Salinger from a young woman's perspective.<br /><br />I like Plath, kind of a lot, but although I was exposed to her very young (like, twelve?) I don't think I would call her (for me) "foundational."<br /><br />Still, I love her melodrama.<br /><br />"Out of the ash/ I rise/ with my red hair/and I eat men like air."<br /><br />(I'm guessing at the lineation there.)Nada Gordon: 2 ludic 4 Uhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01448534316756256503noreply@blogger.com